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  2. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Guitar, 9 string 9 strings 9 courses. F ♯ 1 B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 A 4 [*] US * These short-scale, extended range instruments are uncommon, and tuning hasn't really been standardized for them. Guitar, 10 string 10 strings 10 courses. F ♯ 2 G ♯ 2 A ♯ 2 C 2 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4: 10 String classical guitar Spain

  3. Alto recorder - Wikipedia

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    The alto recorder in F, also known as a treble (and, historically, as consort flute and common flute) is a member of the recorder family. Up until the 17th century the alto instrument was normally in G 4 instead of F 4. [1] [2] Its standard range is F 4 to G 6. The alto is between the soprano and tenor in size, and is correspondingly ...

  4. Range (music) - Wikipedia

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    The terms sounding range, written range, designated range, duration range and dynamic range have specific meanings. The sounding range [ 3 ] refers to the pitches produced by an instrument, while the written range [ 3 ] refers to the compass (span) of notes written in the sheet music, where the part is sometimes transposed for convenience.

  5. Cor anglais - Wikipedia

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    The pear-shaped bell (called Liebesfuß) of the cor anglais gives it a more covered timbre than the oboe, closer in tonal quality to the oboe d'amore.Whereas the oboe is the soprano instrument of the oboe family, the cor anglais is generally regarded as the alto member of the family, and the oboe d'amore—pitched between the two in the key of A—as the mezzo-soprano member. [5]

  6. Category:F instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a category for all transposing instruments that sound music written in the key of C in the key of F, regardless of octave. Pages in category "F instruments" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    The most common way to represent the string tunings of many instruments is by a chord with all strings open. For instruments with many closely tuned strings, this is impractical, and for those with reentrant tunings it is positively misleading, so an arpeggio style may be used instead, spreading the string tunings. Recognising this, some ...

  8. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards

  9. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    Smaller scale instruments are also quite commonly used by fully-grown players in jazz, folk music and similar ensembles. The system of conventional fractions is taken to its logical conclusion with string bass sizes, in that a full-size (4/4) bass is uncommon. Most basses are 3/4 or 7/8, and younger players can use 1/2 or even 1/4 size instruments.