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2. Appalachian dulcimer - Wikipedia

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   Soprano or piccolo dulcimer: These are smaller dulcimers which range in size from about 80% all the way down to about 50% of the regular tenor dulcimer in length. They are designed to support higher pitches, and tuning is typically a fourth higher: G4-D4-G3 or G4 G4-D4-G3.

3. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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   (mid scale) 10 strings 5 courses. Standard/common: D 2 D 2 •G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •E 4 E 4. Alternates: Irish: D 2 D 2 •G 2 G 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Modal D: D 2 D 2 •A 2 A 2 •D 3 D 3 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4. Celtic or Flatback Cittern Europe Mid Scale [9] ~ 22.5" (57.2 cm) Many other modal tunings have been ...

4. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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   Fender has also built some 3/4-size student guitars with a scale length of 22.5 inches (570 mm) or shorter. Gibson uses a scale length of 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (630 mm) on most of its electric guitars, including the ES-335, Les Paul, SG, Flying V, and Explorer. Gibson has used other scale lengths on various models through the years.

5. Zither - Wikipedia

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   Anton Karas and Ruth Welcome used instruments of similar design to the one illustrated. After World War II, Karas (according to zither scholar Günter Wittenstein, who was acquainted with him) performed on an instrument of larger dimensions than normal – with a 43 cm standard scale length for the fingerboard strings.

6. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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   Appalachian dulcimer [146] [147] dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, lap dulcimer, fretted dulcimer, dulcimore, et al. Fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally ...

7. Talk:Appalachian dulcimer - Wikipedia

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   There are several ways of playing the blues pentatonic scales on the mountain dulcimer, but what I understand as this scale (root, flat 3rd, 4th, 5th, flat 7th) does not correspond to the mixolydian scale, not even as a subset of the scale, since it lacks the flat 3rd.