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5 unusual facts about musical tuning


Acoustic telegraphy

At the receiving end a device tuned to the same frequency resonated to the pulses but not to others on the same wire.

Cavaquinho

The most common tuning is D-G-B-D (from lower to higher pitches); other tunings include D-A-B-E (Portuguese ancient tuning, made popular by Júlio Pereira) and G-G-B-D and A-A-C#-E.

Mistuning

In music mistuning is most generally the action of incorrectly tuning or the state of being out of tune.

Musical tuning

Scordatura for the violin was also used in the 19th and 20th centuries in works by Niccolò Paganini, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns and Béla Bartók.

Sintir

Depending on the area where the Gnawa Zaouia (shrine) is located, there are different keys to the tuning.


Geinoh Yamashirogumi

For example, in the 1980s, MIDI digital synthesizers could not handle the tuning systems of traditional gamelan music, so the group had to teach themselves how to program in order to modify their equipment.


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