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  2. Thomastik-Infeld - Wikipedia

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    They started manufacturing steel strings. Thomastik-Infeld's workshops were completely destroyed in World War Two. In 1970, the Dominant strings were launched. In those years, the conventional gut string was challenged by perlon strings; Thomastik-Infeld offered this type of string, making the brand very popular for virtuosi across the world.

  3. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 7/8 violin has a scale of about 317 mm, a 3/4-size instrument a scale of 307 mm, a half-size one 287 mm, and a quarter-size one 267 mm. 1/8, 1/10, 1/16 and 1/32 and even 1/64 violins also exist, becoming progressively smaller, but again in no proportional relationship. (A full-size instrument is described as 4/4.)

  4. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [1]

  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. String (music) - Wikipedia

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    Fretted instruments (guitar, banjo, etc.) strings are usually described by gauge—the diameter of the string. The tone of a string depends partly on weight, and, therefore, on its diameter—its gauge. Usually, string manufacturers that do not describe strings by tension list string diameter in thousandths of an inch (0.001 in = 0.0254 mm ...

  7. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards

  8. Standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    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) Balalaika (Prima): E 4 E 4 A 4 (the two identical Es are on strings of different gauges) Requinto Jarocho: A 3 D 3 G 3 C 4 (G string tuned the same as a guitar's) Ukulele (Soprano): G 4 C 4 E ...

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    4 strings 4 courses. G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5: Mandolin-banjo, Melody Banjo, banjoline, bandoline US Hybrid of mandolin and banjo but with only one string per course Banjo, Long Neck 5 strings 5 courses. E 4 B 2 E 3 G ♯ 3 B 3 "Pete Seeger" Banjo US (commissioned by Pete Seeger) Open string tuning; often played with capo on 3rd fret Banjo, tenor 4 ...

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