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The ʻūkēkē is a musical bow made of koa wood, 16 to 24 inches long and about 1 1 ⁄ 2 inches wide with two or three strings fastened through and around either end, tuned to an A major triad. Prior to the introduction of steel strings, gut or sennit (coconut fibre) was used.
Songs in A Minor is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Alicia Keys, released on June 12, 2001, by J Records. [4] [5]Keys began writing songs for the album in 1995 at age 14 and recording the album in 1998 for Columbia Records, but after they rejected it, she signed a recording contract with Clive Davis's Arista Records and eventually J Records.
Another common tuning for the soprano ukulele is the higher string-tension D 6 tuning (or simply D tuning), A 4 –D 4 –F ♯ 4 –B 4, one step higher than the G 4 –C 4 –E 4 –A 4 tuning. Once considered standard, this tuning was commonly used during the Hawaiian music boom of the early 20th century, and is often seen in sheet music ...
String Quartet in A minor (Sibelius) String Quartet No. 1 (Bartók) String Quartet No. 2 (Arensky) String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn) String Quartet No. 3 (Hill) String Quartet No. 6 (Dvořák) String Quartet No. 7 (Dvořák) String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert) String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven) String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms) String Quintet No. 1 ...
Prior to the release of Songs in A Minor in June 2001, her song "Girlfriend" was released to US radio in earlier in the year as a promotional song "to introduce" Keys. [2] It was co-written by Keys with Jermaine Dupri and Joshua Thompson and contains a sample of Ol' Dirty Bastard 's track " Brooklyn Zoo ". [ 2 ]
Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing, which has been used for centuries, involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
During the 1920s and 1930s, Williams gradually added the extra strings to prevent other guitarists from playing his guitar. In his later years, he occasionally used a 12-string guitar tuned to open G. Williams sometimes tuned a six-string guitar to a modification of open G: the bass D string (D2) was replaced with a .08-gauge string and tuned ...
The total length is 90 centimetres (35 in), with a 65-centimetre (26 in) scale. It has eight strings in five courses (2-2-1-1-2); the doubled courses are all unison doublings. Tunings vary, with a common choice being E-A-D-B-C. [24] Moquegua: Charango with 20 strings arranged in five courses of four strings each. Tuning is like the standard ...