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  2. Lap steel ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The lap steel ukulele is typically placed on the player's lap, or on a surface in front of the seated player. The strings are not pressed to a fret when sounding a note, rather, the player holds a metal slide called a steel in the left hand, which is moved along the strings to change the instrument's pitch while the right hand plucks or picks the strings.

  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. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    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 guitar. Bass ukuleles are tuned similarly to the bass guitar and double bass : E 1 –A 1 –D 2 –G 2 for U-Bass style instruments (sometimes called contrabass), or an octave higher, E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G ...

  5. Nashville tuning (high strung) - Wikipedia

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    The Pink Floyd song "Hey You" from the album The Wall and the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind" [2] from their Point of Know Return album use this form of guitar tuning. In "Hey You", David Gilmour replaced the low E string with a second high E (not a 12-string set, low E's octave string) such that it was two octaves up.

  6. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Here, the two strings on the far side pass through the keyhole slots directly, but the nearer two strings use fine tuners. Fine tuners are used on the tailpiece of some stringed instruments, as a supplement to the tapered pegs at the other end. Tapered pegs are harder to use to make small adjustments to pitch. Fine tuners are not geared.

  7. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    This requires altering (usually loosening) or "slacking" certain strings, which is the origin of the term "slack key". The style typically features an alternating-bass pattern, played by the thumb on the lower two or three strings of the guitar, while the melody is played by the fingers on

  8. Course (music) - Wikipedia

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    The twelve-string guitar has twelve strings, in six courses. The courses are most often tuned E-A-D-G-B-E, similarly to a six-string guitar; however, older instruments were often tuned one tone lower D-G-C-F-A-D to reduce the tension on the neck, and commonly played with a capo on fret 2.

  9. Cuatro (Venezuela) - Wikipedia

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    strings 1 and 2 – perfect fourth; strings 2 and 3 – major third; strings 1 and 4 – major second; The most popular tuning for the cuatro is A D F ♯ B, with the B string tuned to a major second interval from the A string (instead of the more "guitar-like" perfect fourth from the F ♯).