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  2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    D ♭ piano accordion D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C). Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭ 4 and D 4 ...

  3. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭. In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant ...

  4. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...

  5. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For example, playing a written middle C on a transposing instrument produces a pitch other than middle C; that sounding pitch identifies the interval of ...

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  7. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    a 1 a 2 •b 1 b 2 •c 2 c 3d 2 d 3 •e 2 e 3 •f 2 f 3 •g 2 g 3 •a 2 a 2 •d 3 d 3 •f 3 f 3 •a 3 a 3 •d4•f4 Europe [ * ] The number of strings and courses on a lute can vary widely depending on period and geographical region.

  8. D major - Wikipedia

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    The key is also appropriate for guitar music, with drop D tuning making two D's available as open strings. [1] For some beginning wind instrument students, however, D major is not a very suitable key, since it transposes to E major on B ♭ wind instruments, and beginning methods generally tend to avoid keys with more than three sharps.

  9. Partial capo - Wikipedia

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    Harvey Reid and Jeff Hickey started the Third Hand Capo Co. in Nashville, renaming Shabram's invention "Third Hand Capo". A popular style of partial capo is the "Esus" style, which clamps the A, D, and G strings of a guitar. [2] When placed upon the second fret, it forms an Esus chord, and when turned upside down, it forms an A chord. There are ...