tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth. All-fifths tuning...

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...

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...

Among alternative tunings for the guitar, all-fourths tuning is a regular tuning. In contrast, the standard tuning has one irregularity—a major third between...

a fifth. All-fifths tuning was used by the jazz-guitarist Carl Kress. The left-handed involute of an all-fifths tuning is an all-fourths tuning. All-fifths...

based on all-fifths tuning. Some closely voiced jazz chords become impractical in NST and all-fifths tuning. These are tunings in which some or all strings...

augmented-fourth tunings, which are also called "diminished-fifths" or "tritone" tunings. C-G-D-A-E'-B' or G'-D-A-E'-B-F♯' All-fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals...

All-fifths tuning is the standard tuning for mandolin and violin and it is an alternative tuning for guitars. All-fifths tuning is also called fifths, perfect...

complex tuning systems based on just intonation, such as 5-limit tuning, use at most eight justly tuned fifths and at least three non-just fifths (some...

or "diminished fifths", augmented-fourths tuning is also called tritone tuning or diminished-fifths tuning. The standard guitar-tuning E-A-d-g-b'-e' interjects...

alternate tunings. It is easier to finger the chords that are based on perfect fifths in new standard tuning than in standard tuning. New standard tuning was...

abbreviation). Other names for major-thirds tuning include major-third tuning, M3 tuning, all-thirds tuning, and augmented tuning. By definition, a major-third interval...

notes to an octave (such as the piano) is tuned using Pythagorean tuning, one of the twelve fifths (the wolf fifth) sounds severely discordant and can hardly...

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...

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...

temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal fifths, both rising and descending, scaled...

regular tuning than in standard tuning. It can be difficult to play conventional chords, especially in augmented-fourths tuning and all-fifths tuning, in...

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...

as rising by fifths. All regular diatonic tunings are also generated collections (also called moments of symmetry) and the chain of fifths can be continued...

Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument...

original (now called "Classic") tuning consists of five bass strings (six on the Grand Sticks), tuned upwards in all-fifths tuning, with the low string in the...

McDonough were published, they were transposed from his fifths tuning to standard tuning. All-fifths tuning is used by other instruments besides tenor banjos...

called a wolf fifth is a controversial matter. Five-limit tuning also creates two impure perfect fifths of size 40:27. Five-limit fifths are about 680...

standard tuning Regular tuning Major thirds tuning All fourths tuning All fifths tuning Repetitive tuning English guitar Russian guitar The difference between...

drawback of Pythagorean tuning is that one of the twelve fifths in this scale is badly tuned and hence unusable (the wolf fifth, either F♯–D♭ if G♭ is...

Pythagorean tuning § Size of intervals. The 5-limit tuning system uses just tones and semitones as building blocks, rather than a stack of perfect fifths, and...

six perfect fifths. For instance, the seven natural pitch classes that form the C-major scale can be obtained from a stack of perfect fifths starting from...

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

became standard. The usual tuning is the all-fifths tuning C3 G3 D4 A4, in which exactly seven semitones (a perfect fifth) occur between the open notes...

notes in a regular diatonic tuning are connected in a "spiral of fifths" that does not close (unlike the circle of fifths in 12 TET). Starting on the...