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  2. Guqin tunings - Wikipedia

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    The qin is tuned using the tuning pegs to adjust the pitch. The method of finding to right pitch to adjust to is straight forward. One way is to tune by ear, plucking the open strings and picking out the relation differences between the strings. This method way of tuning requires a very accurate sense of pitch.

  3. Tube zither - Wikipedia

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    The tuning peg tightened the fiddle string to "C# below middle C." [41] It may have been played as well by the Yakutat people (part of the Tlingit of the northwest coast of North America. [41] The Diegueno of Southern California had a bowed instrument, as well, and the Seri people on Tiburón Island, although the Seri's traditional fiddle was ...

  4. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pins are used on instruments where there is no space for a knob on each string, such as pianos and harps. Turning the peg or pin tightens or loosens the string. Some tuning pegs and pins are tapered, some threaded. Some tuning pegs are ornamented with shell, metal, or plastic inlays, beads (pips) or rings.

  5. Zither - Wikipedia

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    In modern usage the term "zither" usually refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (German: Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (each of which uses a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither or "guitar zither"). Concert and Alpine zithers are traditionally found in ...

  6. Kokle - Wikipedia

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    11-string Latgale kokles with aspen body, fir soundboard and oak tuning pegs In the largely Catholic Latgale region of Latvia, it was characteristic for the kokles to be constructed with an extension of the body beyond the peg line called a wing, that reinforces the sound of the instrument and can also be used as an arm support.

  7. Machine head - Wikipedia

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    A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine heads are used on mandolins, guitars, double basses and others, and are usually located on the instrument's headstock .

  8. Waldzither - Wikipedia

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    The waldzither (German: "forest zither") is a plucked string instrument from Germany.It is a type of cittern that has nine (sometimes ten) steel strings in five courses. . Different types of waldzither come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citt

  9. Đàn tranh - Wikipedia

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    A man playing the đàn tranh beside the singer. The đàn tranh (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ʈajŋ̟], 彈 箏) or đàn thập lục [1] is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based on the Chinese guzheng, from which are also derived the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Mongolian yatga, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen.