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An unusual tuning of a stringed instrument for some special effect.

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Usage examples (8)
  • And that's not to mention the tuning of the concertmaster's violin "scordatura," or up a tone, to create a harsh sound symbolizing the dance of Death of the second...
  • Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an...
  • Since that incident, I have modified the scordatura.
  • Now for a bit of dark humor: In an earlier version of the piece to be performed on the MATA festival, a rather extreme scordatura in the cello is required.
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