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  2. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Argentine tuning: C 4 C 4 •F 4 F 4 •A 4 A 3 •D 4 D 4 •A 4 A 4. Gm7/B ♭ 6 Tuning: F 4 F 4 •B ♭ 5 B ♭ 5 •C 5 C 4 •G 4 G 4 •D 5 D 5. Quirquincho, Mulita, Tatu, Kirki Bolivia, Peru, Argentina Chile, Ecuador Common C 6 /Am7 or "Bolivian" tuning, but there are many variants. 3rd course is an octave pair. Charango, Hatun: 7 or 8 ...

  3. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    The conventional modern tuning of the trichordo bouzouki is D 3 D 4 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4. This tuning was called the "European tuning" by Markos Vamvakaris, who mentioned (but failed to describe) several other tunings, or douzenia, in his autobiography. [14] The illustrated bouzouki was made by Karolos Tsakirian of Athens, and is a replica of ...

  4. Tzouras - Wikipedia

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    There are three pairs of strings, tuned to D 3 D 4 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4 or D 4 D 3 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4. The strings are made of steel. [1] [2] Physically, the tzouras resembles the bouzouki, with a similar neck and head, but stands out due to its notably smaller body, resulting in a distinct tonal quality.

  5. Irish bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    The Irish bouzouki (Irish: búsúcaí) [1] is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).The newer Greek tetrachordo bouzouki (4 courses of strings) was introduced into Irish traditional music in the mid-1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the folk group Sweeney's Men, who retuned it from its traditional Greek tuning C³F³A³D⁴ to G²D³A³D⁴, a tuning he had pioneered ...

  6. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pegs with knobs on a veena.. Tapered pegs are a simple, ancient design, common in many musical traditions. Tapered pegs are common on classical Indian instruments such as the sitar, the Saraswati veena, and the sarod, but some like the esraj and Mohan veena often use modern tuning machines instead.

  7. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    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. The term "out of tune" refers to a pitch/tone that is either too high or too low in relation to a given reference pitch. While an ...

  8. Andy Irvine (musician) - Wikipedia

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    [58]: 35 A distinctive aspect of the Sweeney's Men sound was Moynihan's introduction of the bouzouki—originally a Greek instrument—into Irish music, albeit with a different tuning: GDAD' [2]: 15 (one octave lower than the open-tuned mandolin), instead of the modern Greek tuning of CFAD'.

  9. Baglamas - Wikipedia

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    Baglamas tuning. The baglamas (Greek: μπαγλαμάς Turkish: bağlama), plural baglamades) or baglamadaki (μπαγλαμαδάκι), a long necked bowl-lute, is a plucked string instrument used in Greek music; it is a smaller version of the bouzouki pitched an octave higher (nominally D-A-D), with unison pairs on the four highest strings and an octave pair on the lower D. Musically, the ...