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  2. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    "Peg dope" (also peg paste, peg stick, peg compound) is a substance used to coat the bearing surfaces [1] of the tapered tuning pegs of string instruments (mainly violins, violas, cellos, viols and lutes). Manufactured varieties are generally sold in either a small stick (resembling lipstick), a block, or as a liquid in a bottle. Commonly used ...

  3. Scordatura - Wikipedia

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    The cello in Paul Hindemith’s 2nd string quartet tunes their C string down to B♭ during part of the 3rd movement. The cello soloist's final note of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Variations requires the player to play and retune in one movement, creating a dramatic glissando effect to the A below the cello's normal lowest note of C.

  4. Cello - Wikipedia

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    The pegs are used to tune the cello by either tightening or loosening the string. The pegs are called "friction pegs", because they maintain their position by friction. The scroll is a traditional ornamental part of the cello and a feature of all other members of the violin family.

  5. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    Man turning tuning pegs to tune guitar Tuning of Sébastien Érard harp using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner. Tuning is the process of adjusting the pitch of one or many tones from musical instruments to establish typical intervals between these tones. Tuning is usually based on a fixed reference, such as A = 440 Hz.

  6. Cello technique - Wikipedia

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    The cello is steadied on the lower bout between the knees of the seated player, and on the upper bout against the upper chest. The neck of the cello is positioned above the player's left shoulder, while the C-String tuning peg is positioned just behind the left ear. The bow is drawn horizontally across the strings.

  7. Bow frog - Wikipedia

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    The frogs of a violin bow, viola bow and cello bow Close-up of frog of a violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel) Frogs of the French and German double bass bows. The bow frog is the end part of a stringed musical instrument's bow that encloses the mechanism responsible for tightening and holding the bow hair ribbon.

  8. Nut (string instrument) - Wikipedia

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    A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll.The nut marks one end of the vibrating length of each open string, sets the spacing of the strings across the neck, and usually holds the strings at the proper height from the fingerboard.

  9. Viola - Wikipedia

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    This tuning is exactly one fifth below the violin, [12] so that they have three strings in common—G, D, and A—and is one octave above the cello. Each string of a viola is wrapped around a peg near the scroll and is tuned by turning the peg. Tightening the string raises the pitch; loosening the string lowers the pitch.

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