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  2. Seven-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    "The Guitar Player" by V.A. Tropinin (1823) The Russian guitar or gypsy guitar is a seven-string acoustic guitar tuned to the open G tuning (DGBDGBD), [5] which arrived or was developed early in the 19th century in Russia, possibly as a development of the cittern, the kobza and the torban.

  3. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Drop D 7-string tuning – D-D-A-d-g-b-e' This is the standard seven-string tuning with the low B string raised to D and lower E string dropped to D. The Drop C variation of this tuning (C-C-G-C-F-A-D) was used by James Hetfield on an ESP 7-String Guitar when Metallica were recording the song "Some Kind Of Monster" from the album St. Anger.

  4. B tuning - Wikipedia

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    B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six-string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning.

  5. Russian guitar - Wikipedia

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    There are more than 1,000 different chords possible for the standard open G tuning and plenty of different schools for left hand and right hand (fingerstyle playing) and enormous classical music musical transposition archives and music composed for Russian 7-string guitar for 200 years in Russia. Because much of this music was published during ...

  6. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    This sometimes confuses beginner guitarists, since the highest-pitched string is referred to as the 1st string, and the lowest-pitched is the 6th string. Standard tuning defines the string pitches as E (82.41 Hz), A (110 Hz), D (146.83 Hz), G (196 Hz), B (246.94 Hz), and E (329.63 Hz), from the lowest pitch (low E 2) to the highest pitch (high ...

  7. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning.The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G).

  8. Open G tuning - Wikipedia

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    The two lowest strings are, accordingly, tuned three semitones higher for the lowest string (from E up to G) and two semitones higher for the second-lowest string (from A up to B) while the highest string is tuned two semitones lower (from E down to D), relative to standard tuning. Five-string banjo's standard tuning is also an Open G: g–D ...

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Guitar, 7 string 7 strings 7 courses. Standard/common: B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. Alternate: Van Eps: A 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4; Choro: C 2 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4; 7 string classical guitar, "Brazilian" guitar, 7 string electric guitar US Van Eps aka "Jazz tuning" "Choro" is popular in Brazil 6-string alternates may be adapted for the 7 ...