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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The bass...

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

Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the...

post-Colonial times, after European stringed instruments were introduced by the Spanish during colonialization. The instrument is widespread throughout the Andean...

or more precisely, harmonic partials. For most string instruments and other long and thin instruments such as a bassoon, the first few overtones are quite...

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

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...

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 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...

wood-bodied, metal-bodied resonator, or solid-bodied instruments. Tenor guitars normally have a scale length similar to that of the tenor banjo and octave mandolin...

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

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

5-course instruments – especially those having a scale length between 20 and 22 inches (50 cm and 55 cm). 5-course instruments with a long scale length are...

In music, harmonics are used on string instruments and wind instruments as a way of producing sound on the instrument, particularly to play higher notes...