(the amount of notes between each string) as standard ukulele tuning but every string is tuned up a whole step higher. You’ll want to use an English tuning string set if you wish to tune in this manner. This tuning is popular for soprano ukuleles or banjoleles. Some find this tuning...
Instead, in the standard ukulele tuning, the fourth string is actually higher than the third string. This exception that breaks the linear tuning is known as a re-entry. Other stringed instruments that use a reentrant tuning include the banjo and cuatro, a Venezuelan guitar-like instrument. ...
Hopefully, this list of altered tunings and the artists and song examples cited above have given you some useful points of reference and creative inspiration to experiment with twisting your guitar’s tuning pegs to these nonstandard settings. There are, however, many more altered tunings than t...
These components may include a nut, tuning pegs or string holders for retaining one end of the strings adjacent to the nut, the bridge including critical contact points and saddles, or other string holding devices arranged to retain an end of the strings in the vicinity of the bridge critical...
(6) at a distal end of the neck by a headstock string retainer provided in the form of tuning pegs (7). The strings (5) are secured to the body (3) at the opposite end by a tailpiece (8) composed of individual body string retainers (9) for each string (5). The strings (5) ...
FIG. 1 shows a typical electric guitar 10 generally having a body 12 and a neck 14. Near the top of the neck 14 is a nut element 16, and beyond that are several tuning pegs 18 mounted on a headstock 19. There is one tuning peg 18 for each of several strings 20. Mounted on the...
On the double bass the pegs are replaced by a “machine head,” such as is commonly used on guitars and other plucked instruments, each tuning peg being fitted with a worm-and-wheel screw adjuster. The pegs themselves are made of solid brass. The “tailgut” of the smaller instruments is...