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

Example Sentences

One of them brought a lute, another a violin with one string only, a third a sort of dulcimer with metal pegs, which were played on with a tuning key, and a fourth a small ten-stringed harp.

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Mr. Scrutite went about the country for many a year tuning pianos; but he got old, and the last time he came he left his tuning key, or whatever you call it, saying he'd be round again if he could; but he never came.

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

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I dare say the tuning key was too old, or perhaps you understand modern pianos better.

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With the tuning key of his matchless genius he struck the chords of sorrow to their inmost tone and played on the heart strings of joy with the tender vibrations of an æolian harp, trembling with melodious echoes among the wild flowers of ecstatic passion.

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