Associations to the word «Scordatura»

Wiktionary

SCORDATURA, noun. Cross-tuning; a system of tuning a musical instrument to pitches other than the accepted standard, for example, tuning one or more strings of a violin to pitches other than the commonly accepted GDAE.

Wise words

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