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Đàn tứ (also called đàn đoản): short-necked round-bodied lute derived from the Chinese yueqin or, beginning in the 20th century, a square-shaped, flat-backed, 4-string lute with short neck, tuned C3 G3 D4 A4; Guitar phím lõm (also called lục huyền cầm, ghi-ta phím lõm, or Đàn ghita) - "Vietnamized" acoustic or electric 5 ...
The two main four-string Selmer models were a regular tenor guitar with a smaller body and a 23 inch scale length for standard CGDA tuning, and the Eddie Freeman Special, with a larger body and a longer 25.5-inch scale length, using a reentrant tuning for the A string which was designed by English tenor banjoist Eddie Freeman to have a better ...
Among all regular tunings, all-fourths tuning E-A-D-G-C-F is the best approximation of standard tuning, which is more popular. All-fourths tuning is traditionally used for the bass guitar; [5] it is also used for the bajo sexto. [8] Allan Holdsworth stated that if he were to learn the guitar again he would tune it in all-fourths. [9] [10]
Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either added high and low strings. Guitar, bass (8-string) 8 strings 4 courses. E 2 E 1 •A 2 A 1 •D 3 D 2 •G 3 G 2: Eight-string bass guitar, 8-string bass US Essentially a 4-string bass with each string doubled at the upper octave. Guitar, bass (12 ...
The requinto guitar has six nylon strings with a scale length of 530 to 540 millimetres (20.9 to 21.3 in), which is about 18% smaller than a standard guitar scale. Requintos are tuned: A2-D3-G3-C4-E4-A4 (one fourth higher than the standard classical guitar).
In the early 1930s, Freeman designed the "Eddie Freeman Special 4-String Guitar" for Selmer Music Company, to implement the guitar method he had developed in Baltimore. One of the Selmer- Maccaferri guitars , the Eddie Freeman Special had the scale-length and body-size of a standard guitar, and used a reentrant CGDA tuning, that had a better ...
A common tuning in Portugal is C G A D (reentrant with C being the lowest pitch, [1] or from lower to higher pitches [2]). The standard tuning in Brazil is D G B D. [3] 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