One minor irritation is that modern writers on the subject of tuning use different systems of nomenclature: the scientific and the Helmholtz (in its various versions). Wikipedia provides accounts of both systems, so I have made this concordance that would be relevant to ukulele players. I'm going to print it out and stick it on my wall for reference.
For my own use, I will keep to the scientific, as all you have to know is middle C = C4, and the rest progresses from there.
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| Scientific pitch notation (Wikipedia) |
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| Helmholtz pitch notation (Wikipedia) |
CONCORDANCE
Scientific: C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
Helmholtz: C〟 C、 C c c' c" c"' c"" c""' C"""
For the record, you might like to know that the standard guitar tunings are as follows in the two systems:
1 = E4 = e'
2 = B3 = b
3 = G3 = g
4 = D3 = d
5 = A2 = A
6 = E2 = E
