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Hence, piano designers choose high-quality steel for their strings, as its strength and durability help them minimize string diameters. If string diameter, tension, mass, uniformity, and length compromises were the only factors—all pianos could be small, spinet-sized instruments.
Stretched tuning is a detail of musical tuning, applied to wire-stringed musical instruments, older, non-digital electric pianos (such as the Fender Rhodes piano and Wurlitzer electric piano), and some sample-based synthesizers based on these instruments, to accommodate the natural inharmonicity of their vibrating elements.
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 ...
In traditional music, the overtone scale persists in the music of peoples of South Siberia, especially in Tuvan music. Overtone singing and the sound of the Jew's harp are naturally rich in overtones, but melodies performed on the igil (bowed instrument distantly related to the violin) and plucked string instruments such as the doshpuluur or the chanzy also often follow the overtone scale ...
(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 ...
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Towana Looney, 53, is recovering after undergoing kidney surgery — using the organ from a genetically manipulated pig — on Nov. 25 at NYU Langone Health in New York City
The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.