mistuning
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˈtjunɪŋ/
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desafinación
- Due to a mistuning in the orchestra, the violin section was not harmonizing with the rest of the instruments.
Examples
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She quickly adjusted the piano keys to correct the mistuning before the recital started.
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She found that the ability to recognize mistuned intervals varied considerably depending on the particular interval, the direction of mistuning, and music training.
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Mistuning of sections within a given example was either in the sharp or flat direction, not both.
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We were interested in whether music students with primary performance experience in voice, wind instruments, or string instruments would judge intonation errors of equal magnitude in the three types of stimuli as equivalent or different in degree of mistuning.
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Proposed cognitive factors appear specific to human voices: listeners may be more forgiving of mistuning because we recognize that it is a voice (Hutchins et al., 2012).
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They found evidence for a vocal generosity effect in both melodic and single-tone conditions; greater mistuning was necessary for listeners to perceive that sung tones were out of tune compared to violin tones.
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Their experienced listeners accepted errors of 50 to 70 cents as in tune; listeners were tolerant, especially when mistunings were sharp, in metrically unstressed locations, and when found in emotionally prominent points in the song.
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The musician realized that a slight mistuning of his guitar strings caused the sour sound during the performance.
Synonyms
Changing the pitch of instruments to make a darker, richer sound
Antonyms
How Tuned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mistuning starts with the part mis- meaning 'wrong', as in mistake, and the word tuning from tune meaning 'to make the right sound or setting'. So a mistuning is a 'wrong tuning' and therefore an incorrect adjustment that makes an instrument or machine work badly.