The six-string alto guitar is a smaller version of the classical guitar, designed to be fitted with lighter strings and tuned a perfect fifth higher, to B-E-A-D-F♯-B.
The alto guitar is a transposing instrument, in the key of G.
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Six-string alto guitar
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