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    alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third ("M3" in...
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    alternative tuning, the major-thirds tuning, each of the intervals are major thirds. Minor thirds: Major thirds Decade (log scale), compound just major third Ear...
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    chord. Scales and chords are simplified by major thirds tuning and all-fourths tuning, which are regular tunings maintaining the same musical interval between...
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    highest); in standard tuning, the intervals present among adjacent strings are perfect fourths except for the major third (G,B). Standard tuning requires four...
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    open-strings: 3 semitones (minor third): Minor-thirds, or Diminished tuning 4 semitones (major third): Major-thirds or Augmented tuning, 5 semitones (perfect fourth):...
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    minor third. In the minor-thirds tuning beginning with C, the open strings contain the notes (C, D♯, F♯) of the diminished C chord. Major-thirds tuning is...
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    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...
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  • Ralph Patt (category Inventors of musical tunings)
    October 2010) was an American jazz guitarist who introduced major-thirds tuning. Patt's tuning simplified the learning of the fretboard and chords by beginners...
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    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...
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    tuning, major-thirds tuning, and augmented-fourths tuning (but not major seconds tuning, which is not repetitive on six strings). Among open tunings,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    are major thirds; in contrast, standard guitar tuning has one major-third amid four fourths. Seven-string guitars are needed for major-thirds tuning to...
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    several open C tunings. The English guitar uses a repetitive open-C tuning C-E-G-C-E-G, which is approximately a major-thirds tuning, specifically...
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    open strings are major thirds; in contrast, the standard guitar-tuning has one major-third amid four fourths. Major-thirds tuning has a smaller scope than...
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    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...
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    tunings for the guitar, all-fourths tuning is a regular tuning. In contrast, the standard tuning has one irregularity—a major third between the third...
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  • tunings for the guitar, an open G tuning is an open tuning that features the G-major chord; its open notes are selected from the notes of a G-major chord...
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    number). The minor third is one of two commonly occurring thirds. It is called minor because it is the smaller of the two: the major third spans an additional...
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    conventional "standard tuning" consists of perfect fourths and a single major third between the g and b strings: E-A-d-g-b-e' All-fifths tuning has the set of...
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  • musical temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal fifths, both rising and...
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    Guitar (section Tuning)
    even in all-fourths and major-thirds tunings, which do not require more hand-stretching than standard tuning. In major-thirds tuning, the interval between...
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    Diesis (128:125) demonstration The octave C-C′, the three justly tuned major thirds C-E-G♯-B♯ and the descending diesis C′-B♯ are played (see example)...
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  • the post-WWI period Major third (M3), a type of musical interval Major thirds tuning (M3 tuning), a regular tuning with major-third intervals between successive...
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    Just intonation (redirect from Just tuning)
    specialized term perfect third is occasionally used to distinguish the 5:4 ratio from major thirds created using other tuning methods. 7 limit and higher...
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    Among alternative tunings for guitar, each augmented-fourths tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive open-string...
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    In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern...
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  • between the size of intervals in different tuning systems, see § Size of intervals used in different tuning systems. The standard system for comparing...
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  • augmented tuning is a musical tuning system for musical instruments that is associated with augmented triads, that is a root note, a major third, and an...
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    notes produced in Pythagorean tuning were flattened or sharpened to produce just minor and major thirds. In Pythagorean tuning, the only highly consonant...
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