ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Microtuner

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Microtuner is a noun meaning A high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage brass and reed instruments.

Meaning

A high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage brass and reed instruments.

More Meanings

  1. An electronic device or audio software designed to modify the tuning of musical instruments, hence allowing for microtonal scales, just intonation scales, and tunings other than the twelve-tone equal temperament.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include microtonalist, microtonalism, microtonality, microtone, microinstrument, micromelody.

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