The characteristic long neck and two strings, tuned 5 notes apart.

The piano had three manuals, and strings tuned a quarter tone apart.

"It is like a lute, with six strings, but the backplate is flat and the strings tuned lower."

Another sound that McGuinn developed is made by playing a seven string guitar, featuring a doubled G-string (with the second string tuned an octave higher).

A string may be tuned down by pulling it above the fingerboard, or tuned up by pressing the part of the string in the pegbox.

Piano - Each hammer strikes multiple strings tuned to nearly the same pitch (for all notes except the bass notes).

The bass strings may have 1 or 2 wrapped strings tuned in union.

The inside string (nearest to player) is generally tuned to D4 and the outside string to A4.

Vaughan used heavy strings starting with .013's, tuned a half-step below standard tuning.

In the lower-pitched (bass) course, the pair consists of a thick wound string and a thin string tuned an octave apart.