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  2. DADGAD - Wikipedia

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    DADGAD tuning. D A D G A D, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres. Instead of the standard tuning (E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4.

  3. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down. This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open ...

  4. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Some alternative tunings are difficult or even impossible to achieve with conventional guitars due to the sets of guitar strings, which have gauges optimized for standard tuning. With conventional sets of guitar strings, some higher tunings increase the string-tension until playing the guitar requires significantly more finger-strength and ...

  5. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    Man turning tuning pegs to tune guitar Tuning of Sébastien Érard harp using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner. 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.

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    There really is no "standard" tuning for baritone guitar; choice of tuning depends on instrument, stringing, and player's preferences. Guitar, bass: 4 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2. Alternates: D 1 A 1 D 2 G 2; D 1 G 1 C 2 F 2; Bass, electric bass, 4-string bass, Fender bass USA First U.S. patent filed by Leo Fender on ...

  7. Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.

  8. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    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 minor third apart (E,G).

  9. Tony McManus (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Tony McManus (born 1965) is a guitarist from Paisley, Scotland, who plays finger-style acoustic guitar arrangements of tunes from Celtic music, classical music, and other genres. He emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 2003.