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Standard tuning is 2 octaves below the mandolin. Alternate tuning is 2 octaves below the mandola. Mandocello: 8 strings 4 courses. C 2 C 2 •G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3: mandolincello, mandoloncello Standard tuning is 1 octave below the mandola. Mandola: 8 strings 4 courses. C 3 C 3 •G 3 G 3 •D 4 D 4 •A 4 A 4: Tenor mandola (Europe) A ...
Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).
Banjo (Five-stringed): G 4 D 3 G 3 B 3 D 4 for bluegrass; old time and folk banjoists use this and a wide variety of other tunings; Mandola: C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4 (same as standard viola tuning) Mandolin: G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5 (same as standard violin tuning) Pipa: A 2 D 3 E 3 A 3 (most common and used in Chinese orchestra; several other tunings exist)
All-fifths tuning has the set of open strings C-G-d-a-e'-b' or G'-D-A-e-b-f ♯ ', which have intervals of 3 octaves minus a half-step between the lowest and highest string. The conventional tuning has an interval of 2 octaves between lowest and highest string. All-fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals of perfect fifths like that of a mandolin ...
The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E (low to high). It is larger than the mandola , but smaller than the mandocello and its construction is similar to other instruments in the mandolin family.
Tuning on the full-sized 4-string instrument was commonly in fourths, and identical to the orchestral double bass: E1 A1 D2 G2. This tuning was favored in both America and also quite common in Europe. Smaller, shorter-scaled instruments were more usually tuned in fifths, two octaves below the mandolin: G1, D2 A2 E3.
The name "Octophone" came from the idea that the instrument could take on the "tone combinations" of eight instruments, the tenor guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, taro patch, tiple, mandolin, mandola and mandocello. Changing from one instrument to another was a matter of changing the tuning.
While the standard tuning for open strings of the violin is GDAE—with the G being the tuning of the lowest-pitched string and the E being the tuning for the highest-pitched string—fiddlers playing tunes in the key of D major sometimes employ a tuning of ADAE. In this tuning the open G string is raised to the A directly above it. Even more ...