An augmented tuning is a
musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning:
* Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice.
* Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical bases.
Tuning practice
Tun ...
system for musical instruments that is associated with
augmented triads, that is a
root note, a
major third, and an
augmented fifth. The augmented fifth is constructed by
stacking
Stacking may refer to:
Arts and media
* ''Stacking'' (video game), a 2011 game from Double Fine
* ''Stacking'', a 1987 TV movie directed and produced by Martin Rosen
* Stacking, a technique in broadcast programming
Language
* Consonant stacki ...
the major third with another major third. Consequently, all of the
intervals are major thirds.
Augmented tunings are used for stringed instruments, especially guitars, and for wind instruments. For guitars, augmented tunings are called
major thirds tunings.
Instruments
Guitar
Major-thirds (M3) tunings are unconventional
open tuning
Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitch (music), pitches to the open string (music), open strings of guitars, including acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and classical guitars. Musical tuning, Tunings are described by the particular pitc ...
s, in which the open strings form an
augmented triad; in M3 tunings, the
''augmented'' fifth replaces the
''perfect'' fifth of the
major triad of conventional open-tunings. Consequently M3 tunings are also called (open) ''augmented-fifth tunings'' (in French "''La guitare #5, majeure quinte augmentée''").
Unfortunately, the open augmented-chord sounds dissonant to audiences who are accustomed to standard tuning.
Wind
For a
diatonic
Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize Scale (music), scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, Interval (music), intervals, Chord (music), chords, Musical note, notes, musical sty ...
wind instrument (such as a
harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...
or
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
), the blow notes repeat a sequence of
:
C E G♯
(perhaps shifted to begin with E♭ or with G) and draw notes follow a repeating sequence of
:
E♭ G B
though perhaps with a different initial sequence.
For example:
:
See also
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Diminished tuning
Diminished tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion) in which the blow notes repeat a sequence of
: C E♭ F♯ A
and draw notes follow a repeating sequence of
: D F G♯ B
(pe ...
*
Richter tuning
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Solo tuning
Solo tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion) to fit a pattern where blow notes repeat a sequence of
: C E G C
(perhaps shifted to begin with E or with G) and draw notes follow ...
Notes
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Musical tuning
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