Vaughn's Summaries

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Music Notes

Musical Note Frequencies
Guitar and Piano
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by Vaughn Aubuchon

The table below lists all acoustic guitar note frequencies, and most piano note frequencies, in Hertz (cycles-per-second). The musical scale is based upon the 12^th root of 2.
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The Piano octave groupings have a
pale blue background (key of C).
The Guitar octave groupings have a
pale yellow background (key of E).

Other major key octave groupings are
shown in other colors.

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 Guitar and Piano Notes
 Musical Frequencies Table

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C1

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C2

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82.407

1st fret

2nd fret

3rd fret

4th fret

103.83

110.00

1st fret

2nd fret

C3

3rd fret

4th fret

146.83

1st fret

1

2nd fret

2

3rd fret

3

4th fret

4

196.00

5

1st fret

6

2nd fret

220.00

7

3rd fret

8

246.94

C4

9

1st fret

261.63

10

2nd fret

11

3rd fret

12

4th fret

329.63

440

C5

1

2

3

4

5

6

880.00

7

8

C6

9

10

11

12

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1,760.00

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C7

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C8

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(1)= Tonic
(4)= Sub-dominant

(5)= Dominant
(7)= Seventh

 Each horizontal line = 1 half-note = 1 fret
 Chromatic Scale = Each half-note is 5.95%
 higher in frequency than the previous note.
 1 octave = 12 half-notes = doubling of frequency

 261.63 Hz. = Middle C
The musical scale is based upon the 12th root of 2.
Each note is 1.05946309 times the frequency of the adjacent lower note

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This Vaughns Music Notes Frequency Chart
was last updated on 2017-12-19.