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98 relations: A440 (pitch standard), Absolute pitch, Action potential, American National Standards Institute, Amplitude, Arnold tongue, Atonality, Auditory illusion, Auditory system, Autocorrelation, Basilar membrane, Bass drum, Beat (acoustics), C (musical note), Cent (music), Chromatic scale, Clarinet, Cochlea, Combination tone, Concert pitch, Diplacusis, Duration (music), Eight-foot pitch, Equal temperament, Frequency, Fundamental frequency, Greatest common divisor, Harmonic, Harmonic pitch class profiles, Helmholtz pitch notation, Hertz, Idiom, Inharmonicity, Integer, Interval (music), Johann Sebastian Bach, Just intonation, Just-noticeable difference, Key signature, Loudness, Melody, MIDI, Missing fundamental, Multiplicative inverse, Music and mathematics, Musical instrument, Musical note, Musical tone, Musical tuning, Noise, ..., Octave, Oscillation, Overtone, Part (music), Perception, Percussion instrument, Piano key frequencies, Pitch (music), Pitch circularity, Pitch class, Pitch detection algorithm, Pitch of brass instruments, Pitch pipe, Pitch shift, Pitch space, Pitch-accent language, Place theory (hearing), Proxy (statistics), Psychoacoustics, Pure tone, Relative pitch, Repetition pitch, Scale (music), Scale of vowels, Scientific pitch notation, Scientific theory, Sensory threshold, Set theory (music), Shepard tone, Shout-and-fall, Simultaneity (music), Sine wave, Snare drum, Sound, Sound pressure, Spectral density, Speech, Temporal theory (hearing), Timbre, Tonotopy, Transposing instrument, Tritone paradox, Trumpet, Twelve-tone technique, Unpitched percussion instrument, Wavelength, Well temperament, 3rd bridge. Expand index (48 more) »
A440 (pitch standard)
A440 or A4 (also known as the Stuttgart pitch), which has a frequency of 440 Hz, is the musical note of A above middle C and serves as a general tuning standard for musical pitch.
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Absolute pitch
Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is a rare auditory phenomenon characterized by the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone.
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Action potential
In physiology, an action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific axon location rapidly rises and falls: this depolarisation then causes adjacent locations to similarly depolarise.
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American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
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Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period).
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Arnold tongue
In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems theory, an Arnold tongue is a phase-locked or mode-locked region in a driven (kicked) weakly-coupled harmonic oscillator.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
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Auditory illusion
An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the aural equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds.
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Auditory system
The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing.
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Autocorrelation
Autocorrelation, also known as serial correlation, is the correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself as a function of delay.
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Basilar membrane
The basilar membrane within the cochlea of the inner ear is a stiff structural element that separates two liquid-filled tubes that run along the coil of the cochlea, the scala media and the scala tympani (see figure).
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Bass drum
A bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Beat (acoustics)
In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies.
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C (musical note)
C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.
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Cent (music)
The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.
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Cochlea
The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing.
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Combination tone
A combination tone (also called resultant or subjective tone"", Britannica.com. Accessed September 2015.) is a psychoacoustic phenomenon of an additional tone or tones that are artificially perceived when two real tones are sounded at the same time.
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Concert pitch
Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance.
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Diplacusis
Diplacusis, also known as diplacusis binauralis, “binauralis disharmonica“ or inter aural pitch difference (IPD) is a type of hearing disorder that is the perception of a single auditory stimulus as two separate sounds which may differ in pitch or in time.
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Duration (music)
In music, duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval: how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts.
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Eight-foot pitch
An organ pipe, or a harpsichord string, designated as eight-foot pitch is sounded at standard, ordinary pitch.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.
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Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
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Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
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Greatest common divisor
In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (gcd) of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers.
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Harmonic
A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.
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Harmonic pitch class profiles
Harmonic pitch class profiles (HPCP) is a group of features that a computer program extracts from an audio signal, based on a pitch class profile—a descriptor proposed in the context of a chord recognition system.
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Helmholtz pitch notation
Helmholtz pitch notation is a system for naming musical notes of the Western chromatic scale.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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Idiom
An idiom (idiom, "special property", from translite, "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. translit, "one's own") is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
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Inharmonicity
In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
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Integer
An integer (from the Latin ''integer'' meaning "whole")Integer 's first literal meaning in Latin is "untouched", from in ("not") plus tangere ("to touch").
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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Just intonation
In music, just intonation (sometimes abbreviated as JI) or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers.
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Just-noticeable difference
In the branch of experimental psychology focused on sense, sensation, and perception, which is called psychophysics, a just-noticeable difference or JND is the amount something must be changed in order for a difference to be noticeable, detectable at least half the time (absolute threshold).
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Key signature
In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff.
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Loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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MIDI
MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.
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Missing fundamental
A harmonic sound is said to have a missing fundamental, suppressed fundamental, or phantom fundamental when its overtones suggest a fundamental frequency but the sound lacks a component at the fundamental frequency itself.
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Multiplicative inverse
In mathematics, a multiplicative inverse or reciprocal for a number x, denoted by 1/x or x−1, is a number which when multiplied by x yields the multiplicative identity, 1.
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Music and mathematics
Music theory has no axiomatic foundation in modern mathematics, yet the basis of musical sound can be described mathematically (in acoustics) and exhibits "a remarkable array of number properties".
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical note
In music, a note is the pitch and duration of a sound, and also its representation in musical notation (♪, ♩).
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Musical tone
Traditionally in Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic sound.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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Noise
Noise is unwanted sound judged to be unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
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Oscillation
Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.
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Overtone
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
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Part (music)
A part (or voice) generally refers to a single strand or melody of music within a larger ensemble or a polyphonic musical composition.
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Perception
Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Piano key frequencies
This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A4), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440).
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pitch circularity
Pitch circularity is a fixed series of tones that appear to ascend or descend endlessly in pitch.
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Pitch class
In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart, e.g., the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves.
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Pitch detection algorithm
A pitch detection algorithm (PDA) is an algorithm designed to estimate the pitch or fundamental frequency of a quasiperiodic or oscillating signal, usually a digital recording of speech or a musical note or tone.
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Pitch of brass instruments
flat. The pitch of a brass instrument is determined by its vibratory length, which determines the fundamental frequency of the open instrument and the frequencies of its overtones.
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Pitch pipe
A pitch pipe is a small device used to provide a pitch reference for musicians without absolute pitch.
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Pitch shift
Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered.
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Pitch space
In music theory, pitch spaces model relationships between pitches.
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Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a language that has word-accents—that is, where one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour (linguistic tones) rather than by stress.
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Place theory (hearing)
Place theory is a theory of hearing which states that our perception of sound depends on where each component frequency produces vibrations along the basilar membrane.
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Proxy (statistics)
In statistics, a proxy or proxy variable is a variable that is not in itself directly relevant, but that serves in place of an unobservable or immeasurable variable.
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Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception and audiology.
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Pure tone
A pure tone is a tone with a sinusoidal waveform; this is, a sine wave of any frequency, phase, and amplitude.
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Relative pitch
Relative pitch is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note by comparing it to a reference note and identifying the interval between those two notes.
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Repetition pitch
Repetition pitch is an unexpected sensation of tonality or pitch that often occurs in nature when a sound is reflected against a sound-reflecting surface (for example: a brick wall), and both the original and the reflected sound arrive at the ear of an observer, but with a short time delay between the two arrivals.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch.
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Scale of vowels
A scale of vowels is an arrangement of vowels in order of perceived "pitch".
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Scientific pitch notation
Scientific pitch notation (or SPN, also known as American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) and International Pitch Notation (IPN)) is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.
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Scientific theory
A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested, in accordance with the scientific method, using a predefined protocol of observation and experiment.
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Sensory threshold
In psychophysics, sensory threshold is the weakest stimulus that an organism can detect.
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Set theory (music)
Musical set theory provides concepts for categorizing musical objects and describing their relationships.
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Shepard tone
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
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Shout-and-fall
Shout-and-fall or tumbling strain is a modal frame, "very common in Afro-American-derived styles" and featured in songs such as "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "My Generation".
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Simultaneity (music)
In music, a simultaneity is more than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time, rather than in succession.
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Sine wave
A sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation.
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Snare drum
A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Sound pressure
Sound pressure or acoustic pressure is the local pressure deviation from the ambient (average or equilibrium) atmospheric pressure, caused by a sound wave.
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Spectral density
The power spectrum S_(f) of a time series x(t) describes the distribution of power into frequency components composing that signal.
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Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.
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Temporal theory (hearing)
The temporal theory of hearing states that human perception of sound depends on temporal patterns with which neurons respond to sound in the cochlea.
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Timbre
In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Tonotopy
In physiology, tonotopy (from Greek tono.
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Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument whose music is recorded in staff notation at a pitch different from the pitch that actually sounds (concert pitch).
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Tritone paradox
The tritone paradox is an auditory illusion in which a sequentially played pair of Shepard tones separated by an interval of a tritone, or half octave, is heard as ascending by some people and as descending by others.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.
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Unpitched percussion instrument
An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion.
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Wavelength
In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
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Well temperament
Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory.
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3rd bridge
The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on the electric guitar and other string instruments that allows a musician to produce distinctive timbres and overtones that are unavailable on a conventional string instrument with two bridges (a nut and a bridge).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music)
