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  2. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...

  3. Piano tuning - Wikipedia

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    A man tuning an upright piano. Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment of the ...

  4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Drop tunings lower the sixth string, dropping the lowest E string of the standard tuning. Some drop tunings also lower the fifth string (the A-note in standard-tuning). A drop one tuning lowers the pitch by one full step. Some lower tunings may call for a baritone guitar to more easily maintain high string tension and a rich tone.

  5. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    In standard tuning, there is an interval of a major third between the second and third strings, and all the other intervals are fourths. The irregularity has a price. Chords cannot be shifted around the fretboard in the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E, which requires four chord-shapes for the major chords.

  6. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    This is the most common tuning system used in Western music, and is the standard system used as a basis for tuning a piano. Since this scale divides an octave into twelve equal-ratio steps and an octave has a frequency ratio of two, the frequency ratio between adjacent notes is then the twelfth root of two, 2 1/12 ≋ 1.05946309... .

  7. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    For chords, a letter above or below the tablature staff denotes the root note of the chord, chord notation is also usually relative to a capo, so chords played with a capo are transposed. Chords may also be notated with chord diagrams. Examples of guitar tablature notation: The chords E, F, and G as an ASCII tab:

  8. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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    In the words of William Hubbard's Musical Dictionary (1908), an anomalous chord is a "chord containing an interval" that "has been made very sharp or flat in tempering the scale for instruments of fixed pitches". [2] The development of well temperament allowed fixed-pitch instruments to play reasonably well in all of the keys.

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Standard C 3 • G 3 • D 4 • A 4. Common Alternates G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4; G 2 D 3 A 3 D 4; US Same tuning as tenor banjo, mandola. Guitar, terz: 6 strings 6 courses. G 2 C 3 F 3 B ♭ 3 D 4 G 4: Tertz Guitar, Tierce Guitar, Third Guitar Italy, Germany A minor third higher than standard guitar tuning. Guqin: 7 strings 7 courses. sol la do re mi ...