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  2. Nashville tuning (high strung) - Wikipedia

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    The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" features a 12-string guitar played by Keith Richards and a guitar with Nashville tuning played by Mick Taylor. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" featured two acoustic guitars, one Nashville strung, overdriven through a cassette recorder. [3] James Williamson used Nashville tuning on "Gimme Danger" [4] on Raw Power by the ...

  3. Twelve-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    An acoustic 12-string guitar hand-crafted in 1977. A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned ...

  4. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music .

  5. String (music) - Wikipedia

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    A wound acoustic guitar string (phosphor bronze wound around steel) with a ball end, 0.044" gauge. Bowed instrument strings, such as for the violin or cello, are usually described by tension rather than gauge. Fretted instruments (guitar, banjo, etc.) strings are usually described by gauge—the diameter of the string. The tone of a string ...

  6. Acoustic Guitar (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic Guitar is a monthly magazine published in the United States since July/August 1990 by String Letter Publishing. [1] The magazine offers information, inspiration, and instruction related to acoustic guitars for players of all levels from beginners to teachers.

  7. Guitar tech - Wikipedia

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    The guitar tech also might perform any of a variety of maintenance tasks, such as checking that the string height of the guitars is set properly, modifying ("dressing") the height and arc of the frets, adjusting the intonation of the instruments, checking that tubes (valves) on tube amplifiers are working properly, and that cables are in good condition and free from crackles and hum caused by ...

  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. Steel-string acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    Steel-string acoustic guitars are commonly constructed in several body types, varying in size, depth, and proportion. In general, the guitar's soundbox can be thought of as composed of two mating chambers: the upper bouts (a bout being the rounded corner of an instrument body) on the neck end of the body, and lower bouts (on the bridge end).