tune
noun
a succession of musical sounds forming a melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
mistune
-
a word derived from
tune.
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Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune.
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