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

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

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

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

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

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