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- Tuned - imp. & p. p. - of Tune
- Peal - n. - A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
- A - - The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.
- Violone - n. - The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
- Chime - n. - A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
- Sticcado - n. - An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.
- Fifteenth - n. - A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
- Wolf - a. - The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
- Hurdy-gurdy - n. - A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.