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tuning key

noun

  1. a device that may be placed over a wrest pin on a piano, etc, and turned to alter the tension and pitch of a string
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It is doubtful whether ἡ χορδοτόνος meant the tuning key or the part of the instrument where the pegs were inserted.

The screws were rusty and hard to move, and the tuning key was old, and would slip.

Around his neck was a broad red ribbon which held his harp, while on a green lacing hung the tuning key.

They had strings of brass wire which were tuned by a key, not very different from the present tuning-key.

But Czipra began to put the strings of the czimbalom out of tune with her tuning-key.

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