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  2. Jouhikko - Wikipedia

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    In a three-string jouhikko, the middle string, or in a two-string instrument, the lower or left hand string, is the drone string. Absolute pitch is not fixed, but in Nieminen's charts [9] this is given the note d. The upper or right hand string, passing over the finger-hole, is fingered to give a scale, and this scale typically runs upwards ...

  3. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    This is the standard instrument of the balalaika family Balalaika, prima, 6-string 6 strings 3 courses. Standard: E 4 E 4 • E 4 E 4 • A 4 A 4. Alternates: Same as for 3-string prima; Prima Russia A more recent development, professionals consider these inferior to 3-string instruments. Balalaika, secunda 3 strings 3 courses. A 3 A 3 D 4 ...

  4. Chillador - Wikipedia

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    A chillador is a very small guitar-shaped fretted stringed instrument, usually with 10, 12, or 14 metal strings, in paired or tripled courses. It is played in southern Peru and northern Bolivia . The chillador has 5 courses like its cousin, the charango , and has a similar tuning to the charango. [ 4 ]

  5. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards

  6. Violin construction and mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.

  7. Balalaika - Wikipedia

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    The balalaika (Russian: балала́йка, pronounced [bəɫɐˈɫajkə]) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perfect fourth higher. The higher-pitched balalaikas are used to ...

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    If the octave is also to be indicated, use either Helmholtz pitch notation, as in E–A–d–g–b–e′ for the guitar, or scientific pitch notation, as in E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4. Although the expert will instantly recognise either of these for what it is, for the benefit of the general reader a link should be provided to the ...

  9. String instrument repertoire - Wikipedia

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