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  2. Music of Portal 2 - Wikipedia

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    Music of. Portal 2. Portal 2 is a physics-based puzzle-platform game created by Valve and released on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Linux in April 2011, followed by a Nintendo Switch version in June 2022. The game, set in the desolate, labyrinthine Aperture Science facility, challenges the player to navigate test ...

  3. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    Tuning is the process of adjusting the pitch of one or many tones from musical instruments to establish typical intervals between these tones. Tuning is usually based on a fixed reference, such as A = 440 Hz. The term " out of tune " refers to a pitch/tone that is either too high ( sharp) or too low ( flat) in relation to a given reference pitch.

  4. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" is often cited as a non-vulgar method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification of system. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Other variations tend to start with the mythical king, with one author noting "The nonsense about King Philip, or some ribald version of it, has been memorized by generations of ...

  5. Open G tuning - Wikipedia

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    Among alternative tunings for the guitar, an open G tuning is an open tuning that features the G-major chord; its open notes are selected from the notes of a G-major chord, such as the G- major triad (G,B,D). For example, a popular open-G tuning is. D–G–D–G–B–D (low to high). An open-G tuning allows a G-major chord to be strummed on ...

  6. Overtones tuning - Wikipedia

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    An example is the open tuning constituted by the first six overtones of the fundamental note C, namely C 2-C 3-G 3-C 4-E 4-G 4. Overtone tunings that are open tunings have been used in songs by folk musician Joni Mitchell and by rock guitarist Mick Ralphs of Bad Company ; these open overtones-tunings select their open notes from the first six ...

  7. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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    Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...

  8. Richter tuning - Wikipedia

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    Richter tuning is a system of choosing the reeds for a diatonic wind instrument (such as a harmonica or accordion).It is named after Joseph Richter, a Bohemian instrument maker who adopted the tuning for his harmonicas in the early 19th century and is credited with inventing the blow/draw mechanism that allows the harmonica to play different notes when the air is drawn instead of blown.

  9. Five-limit tuning - Wikipedia

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    5-limit Tonnetz. Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument that obtains the frequency of each note by multiplying the frequency of a given reference note (the base note) by products of integer powers of 2, 3, or 5 (prime numbers limited to 5 or lower), such as 2 −3 ·3 1 ·5 1 = 15/8.