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  2. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Bass Mandolin Europe The alternate tuning (2 octaves below the mandolin) is usually applied to a smaller-scale instrument (see Mandobass). The alternate tuning (2 octaves below the mandola) is usually applied to a smaller-scale instrument (see Mandobass). Mandobass: 8 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: G 1 G 1 •D 2 D 2 •A 2 A 2 •E 3 E 3 ...

  3. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    Usually, courses of 2 adjacent strings are doubled (tuned to the same pitch). The standard octave mandolin tuning is G 2 G 2 −D 3 D 3 −A 3 A 3 −E 4 E 4, The standard tuning of both the octave and standard mandolin would be GG,DD,AA,EE from lowest to highest string. fourth (lowest tone) course: G 2 (97.9989 Hz) third course: D 3 (146.832 Hz)

  4. All fifths tuning - Wikipedia

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    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 or a violin. It has a wide range. It was used by jazz guitarist Carl Kress in the form

  5. Mandolin - Wikipedia

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    A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

  6. Standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    Guitar standard tuning (written an octave higher than it sounds). D/F♯ slash chord Play ⓘ. Guitars and bass guitars have more standard tunings, depending on the number of strings an instrument has. six-string guitar (the most common configuration) – E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (ascending perfect fourths, with an exception between G and B ...

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    A tuning is a sequence of pitches to which the strings are tuned. A stringing is a set of string gauges (and very occasionally other string parameters) that support one or more tunings. Just as many stringings support more than one tuning, so for many tunings there is more than one common stringing.

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    The song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Dance Club chart, scored #1 for three weeks on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart, and enjoyed the #60 spot on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All ...

  9. Mandola - Wikipedia

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    The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument.It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C 3-G 3-D 4-A 4), a fifth lower than a mandolin. [1]