tuner
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈtuːnər/
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afinador
- The piano tuner carefully adjusted the strings to ensure the instrument produced the right notes.
- piano tuner
- blind piano tuner
Examples
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How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
Blog text (2) -
In the material world I used to be a piano tuner.
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Uh, are you the piano tuner or the man with the party favor?
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A piano tuner is at work in the corner.
Fiction book (1992) -
Each piano tuner works eight hours a day, five days a week, and 50 weeks a year.
Blog text (2) -
So what the piano tuner does is to strike the fork and strike the thing on the piano and listen to the two.
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Beginning students probably cannot judge if the C-sharp is in tune, so the guidance of a teacher or a tuner would be helpful.
Academic text (2015) -
In addition to faculty, the school maintained recording studio personnel, instrument repair technicians, a piano tuner, and a staff of dance band arrangers.
Academic text (2015) -
Joseph, 70, phoned a piano tuner he knew and asked if he could come and appraise the piano's value.
Blog text (12) -
Following his residency at the institution, Coe worked as a music teacher, piano tuner, church organist, and professional singer in various communities in Massachusetts and New York.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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2.9
A person who adjusts a piano so it plays the correct notes
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tuner comes from tune + -er, where tune means 'to make the right sound' and -er means 'one who'. So a tuner is a person who adjusts an instrument until it has the correct pitch, which is why we call them a tuner.