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  2. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    For the concert and tenor ukuleles, both reentrant and linear C 6 tunings are standard; linear tuning in particular is widely used for the tenor ukulele, more so than for the soprano and concert instruments. The baritone ukulele usually uses linear G 6 tuning: D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4, the same as the highest four strings of a standard 6-string ...

  3. Reentrant tuning - Wikipedia

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    A variety of tunings are used for the four string tenor guitar, including a relatively small number of re-entrant tunings. One example of a re-entrant tuning for tenor guitar is D 4 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4 with strings 3–1 as for the normal 6-string guitar, but string 4 tuned to D an octave above the 4th string of the 6 string guitar.

  4. Tenor guitar - Wikipedia

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    Also common are tuning one octave below standard violin tuning, G 2 −D 3 −A 3 −E 4, which is typical of the tenor banjo in Irish folk music or "octave mandolin," and the so-called "Chicago tuning", D 3 −G 3 −B 3 −E 4, the same as the top four strings of a standard guitar, or the "baritone ukulele," a slightly smaller instrument ...

  5. 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.

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    6 string Tenor Ukulele Hawaii Invented by Sam Kamaka to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's Statehood. The name comes from the last queen of Hawaii, Queen LiliÊ»uokalani Liuqin: 4 strings 4 courses. G 3 • D 4 • G 4 • D 5. Alternate G 3 • D 4 • A 4 • E 5; liuyeqin, willow leaf instrument China Liuto cantabile: 10 strings 5 courses

  7. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    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. The term "out of tune" refers to a pitch/tone that is either too high or too low in relation to a given reference pitch. While an ...

  8. Cavaquinho - Wikipedia

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    Other tunings include: D A B E – Portuguese ancient tuning, made popular by Júlio Pereira, reentrant with A being the lowest pitch [4] G G B D [5] A A C ♯ E; D G B E – used for solo parts in Brazil; G D A E – mandolin tuning; G C E A – ‘cavacolele’ tuning, the same as the soprano/tenor ukulele [6]

  9. Jesse Kalima - Wikipedia

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    Kalima was the first person known to have strung his tenor with a low G, rather than the standard re-entrant tuning. [2] Kalima popularized the use of the tenor size ukulele and was one of the first to use an amplifier with his instrument. [4] Jesse worked for the Shell Oil Company and in 1940 he married Dorothy Louise Routh Halouska.

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