Stringed instrument tunings
- Stringed instrument tunings
This is a list of tunings for stringed musical instruments. Strings or courses are listed from low to high pitch, reading from left to right facing the front of the instrument standing vertically. (The are a few exceptions to this, for instance the mountain dulcimer which is strung in the reverse direction, with the highest sounding courses on the left and the lowest to the right.) Octaves, where shown, are given in scientific pitch notation, where the A above middle C is "A4."
Single-string courses are simply separated by spaces; multiple-string courses (i.e., paired or tripled strings) are shown with the courses separated by bullet characters (•).
A
D
H
K
N
R
U-V
ee also
* Guitar tuning
* Scale (string instruments) or "Scale length"
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