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Definition of Tunings
1. tuning [n] - See also: tuning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunings
Literary usage of Tunings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan by Francis Taylor Piggott, Thomas Lea Southgate (1893)
"The tunings of the So-no-koto are set out in the table given on page 93 ; it is
printed so as to face the tunings of the Koto, for convenience of comparison ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1867)
"... of those hundreds into tunings or towns. Which division, as it now stands,
seems to owe its original to king ..."
3. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"... Turner, of Caroline, Hardcat>ile, tunings, Trundle—30. In consequence of which
a few persons met ..."
4. The Orchestra and how to Write for it: A Practical Guide to Every Branch and by Frederick Corder (1896)
"... Unusual tunings. Occasionally, for special effects, composers have directed
the players to tune their instruments abnormally, but they dislike this very ..."
5. Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments by Frederick Stearns, Albert Augustus Stanley (1921)
"1,3, and 6 are the tunings most frequently used. 1456. tunings OF THE CHINESE
... 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 of the preceding tunings. 1 Mahillon, Cat. II, p. 84. ..."
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