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  2. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    A 2 A 3 •D 4 D 3 •F ♯ 3 F ♯ 4 •B 3 B 3 •E 4 E 4: Puerto Rico Bouzouki: 8 strings 4 courses. C 3 C 4 •F 3 F 4 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4: Tetrachordo bouzouki Greece Standard aka "F 6 tuning" Bouzouki: 6 strings 3 courses. D 3 D 4 •A 3 A 3 •D 4 D 4: Trichordo bouzouki Greece Standard aka "F 6 tuning" Bouzouki, Irish ( See Irish ...

  3. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    Bouzouki in the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments in Athens. The Greek bouzouki is a plucked musical instrument of the lute family, called the thabouras or tambouras family. The tambouras existed in ancient Greece as the pandura, and can be found in various sizes, shapes, depths of body, lengths of neck and number of strings.

  4. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    A variety of methods are used to tune different stringed instruments. Most change the pitch produced when the string is played by adjusting the tension of the strings. A tuning peg in a pegbox is perhaps the most common system. A peg has a grip or knob on it to allow it to be turned.

  5. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    With such a curved bridge, the player can select one string at a time to play. On guitars and lutes, the bridge can be flat, because the strings are played by plucking them with the fingers, fingernails or a pick; by moving the fingers or pick to different positions, the player can play different strings. On bowed instruments, the need to play ...

  6. Octave mandolin - Wikipedia

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    The standard octave mandolin tuning is G 2 G 2 −D 3 D 3 −A 3 A 3 −E 4 E 4, The standard tuning of both the octave and standard mandolin would be GG,DD,AA,EE from lowest to highest string. fourth (lowest tone) course: G 2 (97.9989 Hz) third course: D 3 (146.832 Hz) second course: A 3 (220.000 Hz) first (highest tone) course: E 4 (329.628 Hz)

  7. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.

  8. Tzouras - Wikipedia

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    There are three pairs of strings, tuned to D 3 D 4 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4 or D 4 D 3 –A 3 A 3 –D 4 D 4. The strings are made of steel. [1] [2] Physically, the tzouras resembles the bouzouki, with a similar neck and head, but stands out due to its notably smaller body, resulting in a distinct tonal quality.

  9. Irish bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    The Irish bouzouki (Irish: búsúcaí) [1] is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).The newer Greek tetrachordo bouzouki (4 courses of strings) was introduced into Irish traditional music in the mid-1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the folk group Sweeney's Men, who retuned it from its traditional Greek tuning C³F³A³D⁴ to G²D³A³D⁴, a tuning he had pioneered ...