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	A course is a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually played together as if a single string. It may also refer to a single string normally played on its own on an instrument with other multi-string courses, for example the bass string on a nine string baroque guitar. Instruments that use two-string courses include Twelve-string guitar. Baroque guitar Baroque guitar The Baroque guitar is a guitar from the Baroque music , an ancestor of the modern classical guitar. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style.... . Lute Lute Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.... . Mandolin Mandolin A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik... . Saz Saz Saz may refer to:* Baglama* The rap artist Sameh Zakout... . Springtime Springtime (guitar) The Springtime is an experimental musical instrument with seven string guitar and three outputs. The instrument was created in 2008 by Dutch luthier Yuri Landman for guitar player Laura-Mary Carter of Blood Red Shoes.... , a seven string guitar with three coursed strings. Vihuela Vihuela Vihuela is a name given to two different guitar-like string instruments: one from 15th and 16th century Spain, usually with 12 paired strings, and the other, the Mexican vihuela, from 19th century Mexico with five strings and typically played in Mariachi bands.... . Instruments that use three-string courses include: Tiple Tiple Tiple is the Spanish word for treble or soprano, is often applied to specific instruments, generally to refer to a small chordophone of the guitar family.... . Twelve-string bass Twelve-string bass The twelve-string bass is an electric bass with four Course each of three strings.Normal tuning is eeE-aaA-ddD-ggG, with one string of each course tuned similarly to the corresponding string of the four-string bass, and the remaining two strings tuned to the octave.... . Mandolins All members of the mandolin Mandolin A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik... family except the lowest-pitched have courses each of two or three strings, most commonly eight strings in four courses. The exception, the mando-bass, has four individual strings. Lutes Guitars Baroque guitar The baroque guitar Baroque guitar The Baroque guitar is a guitar from the Baroque music , an ancestor of the modern classical guitar. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style.... has five courses, with the top four always double strung, and the bass string either double or single. There are also several patterns of modern ten-string guitar Ten-string guitar There are several types of ten-string guitar, including:* The five-course baroque guitar which can have nine or ten strings.* The ten-string harp guitar, including:... but all have ten single strings, played individually. Twelve-string guitar The twelve-string guitar has twelve strings in six courses. The courses are most often tuned E-A-D-G-B-E similarly to a six-string guitar, however older instruments were often tuned one tone lower D-G-C-F-A-D to reduce the tension on the neck, and commonly played with a capo Capo A capo tasto , or simply capo, is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo.... on fret 2. The lowest three courses (E-A-D) are normally tuned at octaves, with the pimary string uppermost and the octave below it, while the upper two coarses (B-E) are tuned to unison. The G course is either unison or at octaves. On some electric twelve-string guitar Electric twelve-string guitar The electric twelve-string guitar is an electric guitar with twelve strings in six course .Both semi-acoustic and solid-body versions exist.... s, and notably the Rickenbacker 360/12 Rickenbacker 360/12 The Rickenbacker 360/12 is an electric guitar made by the Rickenbacker company; it was among the first electric twelve-string guitars. This instrument is visually similar to the Rickenbacker 360.... , the octave strings are below the primary strings. Twelve-string bass The electric twelve-string bass has twelve strings in four triple courses. Basses have also been built with six double courses and other configurations but these are rare. Alternative tunings The American Noise Noise In common use, the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In electronics noise can refer to the electronic signal corresponding to acoustic noise or the electronic signal corresponding to the noise commonly seen as 'Noise ' on a degraded television or video image.... band Sonic Youth Sonic Youth Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley .... is famous for using alternate tuning Scordatura A scordatura , also called cross-tuning, is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. In the Western classical music tradition it is an extended technique to allow the playing of otherwise impossible note sequences or note combinations.... s on their instruments which are mainly double or triple courses, see Sonic Youth's alternate tunings. See also Drone (music) Drone (music) In music, a drone is a harmony or monophony effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustain or repetition , and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built....