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  2. Viola - Wikipedia

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    The viola (/ viˈoʊlə / vee-OH-lə, [ 1 ]Italian: [ˈvjɔːla, viˈɔːla]) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is ...

  3. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    A tuning pin is a tuning peg with a detachable grip, called a tuning lever. The socket on the tuning lever fits over the pin and allows it to be turned. 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.

  4. Standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    Guitar standard tuning (written an octave higher than it sounds). D/F♯ slash chord Play ⓘ. Guitars and bass guitars have more standard tunings, depending on the number of strings an instrument has. six-string guitar (the most common configuration) – E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (ascending perfect fourths, with an exception between G and B ...

  5. Instruments by Harry Partch - Wikipedia

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    Instruments by Harry Partch. The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals. The tonal system Partch used has 43 ...

  6. Viola caipira - Wikipedia

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    The viola caipira, often simply viola or brazilian viola, [1] (Portuguese for country guitar) is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. [2] It was introduced in the state of São Paulo, where it is widely played as the basis for the música caipira, a type of folk - country music originating in the Caipira ...

  7. Just intonation - Wikipedia

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    Harmonic series, partials 1–5 numbered. In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies. An interval tuned in this way is said to be pure, and is called a just interval. Just intervals (and chords created by combining them) consist of tones from a ...