meanings for tuning: Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice. Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument...

prongs. They are traditional sources of standard pitch for tuning musical instruments. The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore...

In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern...

Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are determined by choosing a sequence of fifths which are...

meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment...

established tunings. Communities of guitarists who share a common musical tradition often use the same or similar tuning styles. Standard tuning is the tuning most...

μελῳδία (melōidía) 'singing, chanting'), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity...

Stretched tuning is a detail of musical tuning, applied to wire-stringed musical instruments, older, non-digital electric pianos (such as the Fender Rhodes...

Cross tuning or cross-tuning (aka scordatura) is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. The term refers to the practice...

tuning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tuning can refer to: Tuning, the process of tuning a tuned amplifier or other electronic component Musical...

Fluid tuning is a tuning system for the piano. It was developed by Geoff Smith, a composer and musician from Brighton, England. Fluid tuning is accomplished...

Stuttgart pitch) is the musical pitch corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz, which serves as a tuning standard for the musical note of A above middle...

standard tuning refers to the typical tuning of a string instrument. This notion is contrary to that of scordatura, i.e. an alternate tuning designated...

Fifths tuning is a non-standard tuning for the double bass, used primarily in classical and jazz music. In this tuning, the double bass is tuned like a...

process and techniques involved in the tuning of a pipe organ. Electronic organs typically do not require tuning. A pipe organ produces sound via hundreds...

In musical tuning and harmony, the Tonnetz (German for 'tone net') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard...

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...

instruments are easily re-tuned, the concept of a "standard tuning" is somewhat flexible. Some instruments: have a designated standard tuning (e.g., violin; guitar)...

A regular temperament is any tempered system of musical tuning such that each frequency ratio is obtainable as a product of powers of a finite number of...

cents are often used. There are two main families of tuning systems: equal temperament and just tuning. Equal temperament scales are built by dividing an...

Institute called this pitch "Verdi tuning" because of the connection to the famous composer. Even though Verdi tuning uses 432 Hz for A4 and not 430.54...

standard Richter tuned harp. For example: Augmented tuning Diminished tuning Dorian Cross tuning Scale tuning Solo tuning "Alternate Tunings for Harmonicas...

A schismatic temperament is a musical tuning system that results from tempering the schisma of 32805:32768 (1.9537 cents) to a unison. It is also called...

Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal...

The modern Arab tone system, or system of musical tuning, is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone...

non-equal tempered tuning, and the overall sound and "feel" of the key created by the tuning of its intervals. Historical irregular musical temperaments usually...

everything there is to know about a particular scale. Pythagorean tuning, or 3 limit tuning, allows ratios including the numbers 2 and 3 and their powers...

evidenced by tuning forks of that era in France. The pipe organ tuning fork in Versailles Chapel from 1795 is 390 Hz, an 1810 Paris Opera tuning fork sounds...

the essential tuning systems used in gamelan instruments that have pentatonic scale. Based on Javanese mythology, the Slendro Gamelan tuning system is older...

several valid tunings in just intonation, their harmonic limit may be ambiguous. 3-limit (Pythagorean) tuning Five-limit tuning 7-limit tuning Numerary nexus...