Musical tuning

succession of notes organized according to a model in ascending or descending order within an octave

thumb|upright=1.2|Vibrational modes of an ideal string, dividing the string length into integer divisions, producing harmonic partials f, 2f, 3f, 4f, etc. (where f means fundamental frequency).

tonic note and chord of a musical piece

lowest frequency of a periodic waveform, such as sound

thumb|Information on the scordatura of Rosary Sonata XI by [[Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber]] Scordatura (; literally, Italian for "discord", or "mistuning") is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning. It typically attempts to allow special effects or unusual chords or timbre, or to make certain passages easier to play. It is common to notate the finger position as if played in regular tuning, while the actual pitch resulting is altered (scordatura notation). When all the strings are tuned by the same interval up or down, as in the case of the viola in Mo

umbrella term for the act of tuning an instrument and a system of pitches

pitch standard

point along a standing wave where the wave has minimum amplitude

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thumb|Inharmonic spectrum of a bell (dashed gray lines indicate harmonics). thumb|Harmonic spectrum. thumb|Comparing harmonic (top) and inharmonic (bottom) waveforms. 125px|thumb|Percussion bars, such as xylophone, are hung at ≈2/9 and ≈7/9 length, and struck at 1/2 length, to reduce inharmonicity.

Lebanese historian

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thumb|300px|Slendro approximated in Western notation. thumb|300px|right|Slendro-djawar scale in comparison with whole tone scale on C or .

process of tuning a piano

algebraic irrational number

opening in the body of a wind instrument

overview of ancient Greek music theory

thumb|250px|Reproduction of the archicembalo

laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string

socket wrench used to tune string instruments

blacksmith's hammers associated with discovery of consonance

the typical tuning of a string instrument