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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The qanun (/kəˈnuːn/ kə-NOON) is a Middle Eastern string instrument. It is played either solo or more often as part of an ensemble in much of Iran, East...

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...

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...

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...

bowed-string instrument with three strings and is usually played in mahori ensembles and string bands. Its similarity to other stringed instruments suggests...

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

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

The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to...

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

Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories (classified by the material from which the instruments were made) known as...

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...

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

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...

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