Six-string alto guitar
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The six-string alto guitar or G Guitar is a smaller version of the classical guitar
, designed to be fitted with lighter strings and tuned a perfect fifth
higher, to B/C♭-E/F♭-A-D-F♯/G♭-B/C♭.
The alto guitar is a transposing instrument
, in the key of G.
Classical guitar
The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
, designed to be fitted with lighter strings and tuned a perfect fifth
Perfect fifth
In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is a musical interval encompassing five staff positions , and the perfect fifth is a fifth spanning seven semitones, or in meantone, four diatonic semitones and three chromatic semitones...
higher, to B/C♭-E/F♭-A-D-F♯/G♭-B/C♭.
The alto guitar is a transposing instrument
Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from the corresponding concert pitch, which a non-transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play. Playing a written C on a transposing instrument will produce a note other than concert C...
, in the key of G.