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  2. Stretched tuning - Wikipedia

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    In shorter strings (such as on spinet pianos), the wire stiffness in the tenor and bass registers is proportionately high; this leads to a timbre which is generally poorer, due to the higher inharmonicity and octave stretch, creating significant compromises to what is considered acceptable tuning. On longer strings, such as on concert grand or ...

  3. String (music) - Wikipedia

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    The end of the string that mounts to the instrument's tuning mechanism (the part of the instrument that turns to tighten or loosen string tension) is usually plain. . Depending on the instrument, the string's other, fixed end may have either a plain, loop, or ball end (a short brass cylinder) that attaches the string at the end opposite the tuning m

  4. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    The prim has 5 strings; there is another bisernica which has 6 strings. Bisernica, 6 string 6 strings 4 courses. E 3 •A 3 •D 4 D 4 •G 4 G 4: Tamburitza Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia Other courses are sometimes doubled. Bordonua: 10 strings 5 courses. A 2 A 3 •D 4 D 3 •F ♯ 3 F ♯ 4 •B 3 B 3 •E 4 E 4: Puerto Rico Bouzouki: 8 ...

  5. Knitting - Wikipedia

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    Vertical and horizontal edges can be introduced within a knitted fabric, e.g., for button holes, by binding/casting off and re-casting on again (horizontal) or by knitting the fabrics on either side of a vertical edge separately. Two knitted fabrics can be joined by embroidery-based grafting methods, most commonly the Kitchener stitch.

  6. String (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In string theory, the strings may be open (forming a segment with two endpoints) or closed (forming a loop like a circle) and may have other special properties. [1] Prior to 1995, there were five known versions of string theory incorporating the idea of supersymmetry (these five are known as superstring theories) and two versions without supersymmetry known as bosonic string theories, which ...

  7. Piano acoustics - Wikipedia

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    These differences in string thickness follow from well-understood acoustic properties of strings. Given two strings, equally taut and heavy, one twice as long as the other, the longer will vibrate with a pitch one octave lower than the shorter. However, if one were to use this principle to design a piano, i.e. if one began with the highest ...

  8. String vibration - Wikipedia

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    Vibration, standing waves in a string. The fundamental and the first 5 overtones in the harmonic series. A vibration in a string is a wave. Resonance causes a vibrating string to produce a sound with constant frequency, i.e. constant pitch. If the length or tension of the string is correctly adjusted, the sound produced is a musical tone.

  9. Multi-scale fingerboard - Wikipedia

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    Cort KX500MS Star Dust Green -fanned fret / multi-scale -7-string electric guitar with EMG-pickups. A multi-scale fingerboard (also called multiple scale length fretboard [1]) is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. This allows each of the strings to have a different string tension and thus, balanced tonal ...