Key activity

Usage examples of tuning.

As the atmosphere cycled out, Papa described the repair procedure involving the replacement of a piece of molding, adjustment of a Fabry-Perot tuning etalon, and a system diagnostic to confirm the fix.

The twelve-stringed gittern was a lovely instrument, but tuning it after travel was a true test of patience.

Then she stood and took the lutar from its case, quickly checking the tuning.

Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.

At the arch tip of her mihrab, where the tiny tuning key should have been, there was no slightest protrusion.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

Somewhere in the distance he could hear the skald tuning up his instrument, and his apprentices beating out basic rhythms on the drums with which they would accompany him.

Didymus, and not Ptolemy, who proposed the tuning of the tetrachord which is now accepted as correct.

As she sampled them, Cressy saw that a group of bouzouki players had arrived and were tuning their in struments.

An example of the value of tuning is afforded by the manner in which press reports are sent from the great Marconi station at Poldhu.

The Moties kept fiddling with the insides of their instruments, tuning them, or sometimes handing them to a Brown with a flurry of bird whistles.

The back alleys in my head knew that, which was why I had Strome tuning the car radio to comedies.

The house where Juan Martinez was hiding out was a simple, unass tuning white frame home that sat in the mid-die of an older neighborhood that was showing the signs of age.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

Losses would be made up as needed by the mechanisms of the Gates and Anchors, but once the temperatures stabilized in the life zone and the shield was in place, this was a matter of minor fine tuning, not a constant battle.