The piano-tuner was a great catch--he lived in Highgate; and the electric-bell man was Lambeth.
He knew at once that only the piano-tuner and the electric bell man had been faithful to their trust.
The seeing tuner in charge of the school pianos complained to the director, and they were forbidden to touch the works, but the two friends procured an old piano and continued their efforts.
She reproached me for marrying a pauper, and said I'd better have stuck to the piano-tuner unless you were he in disguise!
The tuning is varied, while you listen, by moving the slider of the slide-wire tuner or by moving the switches if you have connected your coil for that method.
The result is that this series condenser method becomes the easiest method of tuning and the slide wire tuner is not needed.
I hope it's in tune; 't is only four months since the tuner was here.
Mrs. Gold, it would be well to send for the tuner to replace this broken B string.
The tuner comes regularly once in three months; the time is not yet up.
The piano-tuner made them move it to the inner wall in the large, bright place that belonged to the cabinet.
She had lived all her life in a dream of loving and being loved, a dream that began with clergymen and ended with the piano-tuner and the man who did the clocks.
As if I'd look at a clock-tuner or a piano-winder.
A skillful piano tuner could earn what money he needed anywhere and could earn enough in a diligent week to set him free, his simple wants provided for, for the rest of the month.
She didn't believe there was another such tuner in the United States.
A great tuner named Clark taught me, and he learned it from Jonas Chickering himself.
She'd been talking about the piano tuner with what struck him as a surprisingly confident understanding.
It was at this point or thereabouts that John precipitated a crisis by asking how much this paragon of a piano tuner had charged her for his professional services.
This astonishing piano tuner of Lucile's had converted it, with his new christening, into a source of innocent merriment.
He observed that the affability which had made the tuner seem kin to himself was vanished.
It was not the sort of thing Mr. Jackson would have done but then Anthony Trent was a head tuner as he had explained.
His dignity forbade him to indulge in much familiarity with the men beneath him and he welcomed the pseudo-tuner as an opportunity to converse.
Repairing the piano," she told him, "a poor tuner I imagine for the reason that he plays so well.
You should have heard what she said about me over the 'phone when she told the piano people to send a tuner up, and me standing there.
Faulkner's butler was an amiable creature and inclined to associate with a piano tuner on equal terms.
For the first six months of the year he performed the duties of a tuner in the metropolis, and during the remaining six months prosecuted his vocation in Scotland.
Excelling as a piano-tuner he, in this capacity, sought employment in London, and was fortunate in procuring an engagement from the Messrs Broadwood.
From that moment the piano-tuner could only and slavishly admire; but he was not allowed much time for this slightly perilous recreation.
And on the whole the piano-tuner was thankful when his share of the trouble with these men was at an end, and they all came back to the store.
He'd rather suffer anything than leave this little piano-tuner and me alone together!
A moment later he had followed the manager, and the piano-tuner was following Tom; but Naomi Pryse remained where she was.
As for Chester, he made entertaining talk with Naomi as long as she would sit up, and left her with an assurance that he would attend to the piano-tuner like a mother.
The piano-tuner was still on the foot of it, and all the fire in his being had gone into his eyes.
Chester came back to find the piano-tuner half dressed with his one hand.
The piano-tuner looked right and left along this lane, wondering which way to turn.
The piano-tuner scrambled into the saddle, and kicked about awkwardly before finding his stirrups; and the next thing he did was to job the horse's mouth with the wanton recklessness of pure innocence.
The piano-tuner stuck his thumbs into his ears, covered his closed eyes with his palms, and tried both to think and to pray.
All this time the piano-tuner was at his fiendish work behind the closed door, over which Naomi Pryse had purposely mounted guard.
A piano-tuner in the bush is an immensely welcome visitor, mind.
He must also see that his detector is adjusted to its greatest degree of sensibility and his tuner to the proper wave length.
There was a shrill piping as of a singing wind, and a wail that echoed hauntingly through the air as the tuner revolved.
We'll get it again," was Bob's confident answer as he twirled the knobs of both tuner and detector.
Well, static is the big bugbear of radio," answered Bob, pausing a moment in regulating his tuner and detector.
That evening the musician called, and was informed that a tuner had "been exercising his skill" upon the instrument.
She sent to the establishment where it was made, however, and a tuner promptly appeared.
Arc Transmitter with Accessories The Transformer and Tuner of the World's Largest Radio Station.
Don't expect to get as good results with a two-coil tuner as with one having a third, or tickler, coil.
Where a single coil tuner is used a fixed condenser should be connected around the telephone receivers.
Where a loose coupled tuner is employed you should have a variable condenser connected across the closed oscillation circuit and a fixed condenser across the telephone receivers.
A tuner of this kind is made like an ordinary loose coupled tuning coil but it has a third coil as shown at A and B in Fig.
Illustration: The Transformer and Tunerof the World's Largest Radio Station.
Don't expect to get as good results with a single coil tuner as you would with a loose coupler.
This tuner is made up of 25 turns of thin copper strip, 3/8 inch wide and with its edges rounded, and this is secured to a wood base as shown at A in Fig.
For sending sets they are formed of one and two coils, a single sending coil is generally called a tuning inductance coil, while a two-coil tuner is called an oscillation transformer.
To construct a really good regenerative set you must use a loose coupled tuner that has three coils, namely a primary, a secondary and a tickler coil.
A triple slide tuning coil constructed like the double slide tuner just described, only with more turns of wire on it, makes it possible to receive wave lengths up to 1,500 meters.
Wires were then run to the transformer, tuner attached, the headphone wired on, and the aerial and ground connections made.
Jack complied, adjusting the tuner to the meter wave length at which he had set Michac's instrument.
The tuner had standing instructions to come and tune.
But the tuner having tuned didn't excuse the parlourmaid's not having sewn on the button the tuner had pulled off.
I understood the orders was to let the tuner in once a quarter, sir.
Whichever of these detectors be used, then, the operator sits, with his telephone clipped on to his head, and with his tuner set for that wave length at which his station is scheduled to work, listening for signals.
Both the circuits have to be tuned to the desired wave length, but that is done quite easily by the operation of the handles in the tuner already referred to.
In this case the man sits with his telephone on his head carefully changing his tuner from time to time in the endeavour to catch any message in any wave-length which may be travelling about.
But Dave took up a headpiece and began adjusting the tuner knob.
Then as their tuner searched out the higher regions of the air, they shut out the sounds of the low-range air traffic.
Everything's stripped clean, but they used the same sort of tuner that Mr. Henderson gave us.
It's all in that new amplifying arrangement and that single control tuner Frank hit upon," said Tom.
Mr. Henderson gave us the idea for the tuner and a friend of Dad's invented the tube, but couldn't get any one interested.
On one occasion I was just proposing to a girl in her father's library when the tuner struck up in the drawing-room.
Miss Blake, who never listened to what any one said, took it for granted that the little girl was the tuner for whom M.
Whenever I've been giving a luncheon party, the tunerhas arrived, with his abominable black bag, and his abominable card which has to be signed at once.
So the little tuner touched the keys again with all the tenderness of an angel.
That was a tuningfork thetuner had that he forgot that he now struck.
The tuner was in today, miss Douce replied, tuning it for the smoking concert and I never heard such an exquisite player.
I hope you may find it satisfactory," said the piano-tuner grandly.
Was it advisable, after all, for a Falkenberg of the rank of piano-tuner to go walking up to the Captain at Øvrebø and claim relationship?
Whenever I've been giving a luncheon party, the tuner has arrived, with his abominable black bag, and his abominable card, which has to be signed at once.
On one occasion I was just proposing to a girl in her father's library, when the tuner struck up in the drawing-room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
