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  2. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Standard tuning (listen) Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered and arranged from the lowest-pitched string (i.e ...

  3. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    Guitar tunings. New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth { (C,G), (G,D), (D,A), (A,E)}; the two highest strings are a ...

  4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave. High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B. This is an all fourths tuning.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    String gauges. String gauges are always listed in the order in which the strings are conventionally numbered, rather than the order in which the pitches are conventionally listed, so for example a typical light set for electric guitar would be .009-.011-.016-.024w-.032w-.042w.

  6. Standard wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    Standard wire gauge. A standard wire gauge. British Standard Wire Gauge (often abbreviated to Standard Wire Gauge or SWG) is a unit for denoting wire size given by BS 3737:1964 (now withdrawn). It is also known as the Imperial Wire Gauge or British Standard Gauge. Use of SWG sizes has fallen greatly in popularity, but they are still used as a ...

  7. Eight-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar 's seven. Eight-string guitars are less common than six- and seven-string guitars, but they are used by a few classical, jazz, and metal guitarists. The eight-string guitar allows a wider tonal range, or non-standard tunings (such as major-thirds tuning ...

  8. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    Scale length (string instruments) The scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can produce at a given tension. It is also called string length. On instruments in which strings are not "stopped" (typically by frets or the player's fingers ...

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    7 string classical guitar, "Brazilian" guitar, 7 string electric guitar US Van Eps aka "Jazz tuning" "Choro" is popular in Brazil 6-string alternates may be adapted for the 7-string Guitar, 8 string (low/high) 8 strings 8 courses. B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 A 4: 8 string classical guitar Spain aka "Galbraith tuning" Guitar, 8 string (added ...

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