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  2. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Without the proper amount of friction to hold the peg in place, a tapered tuning peg will tend to "slip", making a tuning setting virtually impossible to maintain. String instruments with pegs that are slipping can be tuned briefly, but will be out of tune within minutes as soon as the peg slips again. With too much friction, adjusting the ...

  3. Mandoline - Wikipedia

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    Food processor – chops food using motorisation in multiple ways.; Grater – produces smaller pieces rather than thin sheets.; Kezuriki – Japanese version, used to shave katsuobushi, dried blocks of skipjack tuna.

  4. Violin construction and mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.

  5. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Originally a 4- or 5-string instrument; today often nearly identical to a 6-string western guitar, except for having a scalloped fingerboard and one less string. (See below.) Luc huyen cam: 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: E 2 • A 2 • D 3 • G 3 • B 3 • E 4. Alternates: Day Rach-Gia: E 2 • A 2 • D 3 • G 3 • D 4 • G 4

  6. Kokle - Wikipedia

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    A distinct feature that sets kokles apart from most of the other string instruments is that the strings don't rest on a bridge, making the sound quieter, but richer in timbre. Wooden (or sometimes metal) tuning pegs (tapas) are set into the wide tip of the body, while at the narrow tip is a metal rod (stīgturis) upon which the strings are ...

  7. Category:Bowed string instrument makers - Wikipedia

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    A bowed string instrument maker is a luthier who mainly produces bowed string instruments, such as violins, violas, violoncellos, viols, double basses and many other stringed instruments. Many of these people also repair and restore instruments made by others.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Mandocello - Wikipedia

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    The mandocello (Italian: mandoloncello, Liuto cantabile, liuto moderno) is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It is larger than the mandolin, and is the baritone instrument of the mandolin family. Its eight strings are in four paired courses, with the strings in each course tuned in unison.