each of which gives the tone of one of the strings, G, D, A, or E. The operator then tunes the violin in unison with the pitch pipes. Violinists know that it is hard to keep a violin in tune.

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Welcome to the tuning rabbit hole! To try this tuning, simply drop both high and low E strings by a tone, giving (low to high ...

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On the violin, the sweet spot for a good tone is within the inch and a half ... Your strings were in tune with each other, but your whole hand moved a little sharp.” The second time sounded ...

We continue our series in open tunings with another ‘C’ tuning, but this is different to open Csus2 because the strings are tuned to a major chord, not a suspended sound – and that changes ...

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The best way to think of tone in a poem is to imagine how it would be spoken and what mood you think the speaker would be in. There will be clues to the tone not just in the language but in the ...