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...

(string instruments), a measurement of the length of a musical instrument string This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scale length...

A multi-scale fingerboard (also called multiple scale length fretboard) is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. This allows...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

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...

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...

scale on calipers Scale (music), a sequence of ordered musical notes Scale (string instruments), the sounding length of the strings of an instrument Scale...

Makers of other string instruments sometimes use aliquot parts of the scale length to enhance the timbre. Examples of such instruments include the viola...

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...

lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped...

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...

string instruments with a musical scale. Most fret positions appearing on Non-Western string instruments (lutes) are equal to positions of this scale...

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...

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...

range of pluck-stringed instrument generally is not as great as that of comparably sized bowed-string instruments, other instruments were often added...

Handbook of Materials for String Musical Instruments. Springer. p. 45. ISBN 978-3319320809. Retrieved 3 August 2019. Guitar scale length Hampshire guitar orchestra...

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...

double reed instrument Baritone guitar, a guitar with a longer scale length Baritone ukulele a possible alternate spelling of baryton, a stringed musical...

Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally...

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...

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...

Also, the space between notes on the fingerboard is large, due to scale length and string spacing, so players must hold their fingers apart for the notes...

fretboard of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck. On some historical instruments and non-European instruments, frets...

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...

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...

once than some other stringed instruments, making it more comparable to a keyboard instrument than to other stringed instruments. This arrangement lends...

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...

fundamental frequency. Pitched musical instruments are often based on an acoustic resonator such as a string or a column of air, which oscillates at...

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...

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...