scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can...
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(string instruments), a measurement of the length of a musical instrument string This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scale length...
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A multi-scale fingerboard (also called multiple scale length fretboard) is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. This allows...
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Fingerboard (redirect from Radius (string instruments))
fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments. It is a thin, long strip of material, usually...
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In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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The nuts of some common instruments A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest...
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scale on calipers Scale (music), a sequence of ordered musical notes Scale (string instruments), the sounding length of the strings of an instrument Scale...
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Makers of other string instruments sometimes use aliquot parts of the scale length to enhance the timbre. Examples of such instruments include the viola...
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Oud (category String instruments)
lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped...
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acoustic instruments, is fuller and more harmonically resonant than six-string instruments. The 12-string guitar can be played like a 6-string guitar as...
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Bass guitar (redirect from Four-string bass guitar)
but with a longer neck and scale length. The electric bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also built. Since...
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string instruments with a musical scale. Most fret positions appearing on Non-Western string instruments (lutes) are equal to positions of this scale...
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Mandolin (category String instruments)
typically a five course (ten-string) instrument having a scale length between 20 and 22 inches (510 and 560 mm). The instrument is most often tuned to either...
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In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...
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Banjo (redirect from Banjo string)
range of pluck-stringed instrument generally is not as great as that of comparably sized bowed-string instruments, other instruments were often added...
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Classical guitar (redirect from Nylon string guitar)
Handbook of Materials for String Musical Instruments. Springer. p. 45. ISBN 978-3319320809. Retrieved 3 August 2019. Guitar scale length Hampshire guitar orchestra...
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Flue pipe (redirect from String stop)
a string tone. These relationships are referred to as the scale of the pipe: i.e., wide-scaled, normal-scaled, or narrow-scaled. As a pipe's scale increases...
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Baritone (disambiguation) (section String instruments)
double reed instrument Baritone guitar, a guitar with a longer scale length Baritone ukulele a possible alternate spelling of baryton, a stringed musical...
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Saw sam sai (category Bowed string instruments)
bowed-string instrument with three strings and is usually played in mahori ensembles and string bands. Its similarity to other stringed instruments suggests...
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Musical tuning (redirect from Open string (music))
the length or width of the tube of a wind instrument, brass instrument, pipe, bell, or similar instrument to adjust the pitch. In woodwind instruments, this...
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Guitar (redirect from 6-string guitar)
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held...
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perpendicular to their vibrating length. This has the net effect of increasing the pitch of a note (or notes as the case may be). String-bending allows exploration...
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Appalachian dulcimer (category American musical instruments)
Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally...
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Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones...
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shorter scale length and/or a thinner string such as a .008 or .007[citation needed]. Extended range nine-string guitars also sometimes have a multi-scale fingerboard...
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Fret (redirect from Fretted instruments)
fretboard of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck. On some historical instruments and non-European instruments, frets...
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Azerbaijani: qanun; Uyghur: قالون, romanized: qalon) is a Middle Eastern string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much...
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Chapman Stick (category Amplified instruments)
once than some other stringed instruments, making it more comparable to a keyboard instrument than to other stringed instruments. This arrangement lends...
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one, very long string that's threaded through the notches. It is then fastened to a wooden peg. The inānga follows the pentatonic scale. The player tunes...
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pedals are to be used, whether a string instrument should be bowed or plucked, or whether the bow of a string instrument should move up or down). A clef...
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