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  2. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.

  3. 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 .

  4. Acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slide guitar is a common technique that can be played on acoustic, steel acoustic, and/or electric guitars. It is primarily used in the blues, rock, and country genres. [ 23 ] When playing with this technique, guitarists wear a small metal, glass, or plastic tube on one of their fretting hand fingers and slide it across the fretboard rather ...

  5. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Spain (acoustic) USA (electric) "classical" = guitar with gut, nylon, or other synthetic strings; "acoustic"/"steel-string" = guitar with metal strings; Open G aka "bottleneck," "taro patch"; Open A aka "Spanish"; "Lute tuning" is usually capoed on 3rd fret to give G 2 C 3 F 3 A 3 D 4 G 4, and E 2 is often dropped to D 2 (F 2 with capo). There ...

  6. Classical guitar - Wikipedia

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    The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, [1] is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings.

  7. Sigma Guitars - Wikipedia

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    Sigma released a wide series of acoustic and classical guitars, which initial construction was in Japan by various manufacturers/factories from 1970 through 1983. The first Sigmas were typically dreadnought acoustic , although Grand Concert Series (GCS) and classical models were also produced from the early 1970s (1971?) onward.

  8. Guitar bracing - Wikipedia

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    The tops of most steel string acoustic guitars are braced using the X-brace [6] system, or a variation of the X-brace system, generally attributed to Christian Frederick Martin between 1840 and 1845 for use in gut string guitars. [7] [8] The system consists of two braces forming an "X" shape across the soundboard below the top of the sound hole ...

  9. 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 ...