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  2. 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 ...

  3. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Essentially a 4-string bass with one added high or low string. Choice of tuning depends whether the added string is low or high. Guitar, bass (6-string) 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: B 0 E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3. Alternate: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 B 2 E 3. Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either ...

  4. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.

  5. Jivari - Wikipedia

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    In the actual tuning, the fundamentals are of lesser interest as attention is drawn to the sustained harmonics that should be clearly audible, particularly the octaves, fifths, major thirds and minor sevenths of the (fundamental) tone of the string. The actual tuning is done on three levels: firstly by means of the large pegs, secondly, by ...

  6. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    With conventional sets of guitar strings, some higher tunings increase the string-tension until playing the guitar requires significantly more finger-strength and stamina, or even until a string snaps or the guitar is warped. However, with lower tunings, the sets of guitar strings may be loose and buzz.

  7. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Standard seven-string tuning with the low E dropped to D, which results in a minor 3rd interval between the two lowest strings of B and D. Used by Ed Sloan of Crossfade. Also used by Animals as Leaders on the song "CAFO". A flat variation of this tuning is used by Periphery on the song "Racecar". Drop D + A 7-string tuning – A'-D-A-d-g-b-e'

  8. Twelve-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    An acoustic 12-string guitar hand-crafted in 1977. A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned ...

  9. 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 ...