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1.248 scordatura

ES: encordado, I: scordatura, F: à cordes ravallées, D: Skordatur, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?, FI: ?.

[From Italian, scordare, ‘to mistune’.] Unconventional tuning of stringed instruments, particularly lutes or violins. Used to:

Tunings that could be called scordatura first appeared early in the 16th Century and became commonplace in the 17th.

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