Sentence examples for tuning system from inspiring English sources

A variety of gamelan exists, each with a special function, instrumentation, repertoire, and tuning system.

Two prominent Indian schools of sarod playing are those of Ghulam Ali Khan and Allauddin Khan, each with its own playing style, type of sarod (e.g., size, shape, and number of strings vary), and tuning system.

Because the first and most significant thing that will strike your ears from the first second of The Well-Tuned Piano is the acidulous yet soft-focused beauty of the tuning system Young uses in the piece.

"You don't want the tuning system to cost twice the value of the piano," he said.

The Sonos app for iOS devices has a built-in automatic tuning system called Trueplay.

I'm in two minds, as well, about the Tronical robotic tuning system.

With the development of harmony and the increased use of chromatic notes, both tuning systems became increasingly unsatisfactory.

These composers' styles vary greatly, but they share a sensibility steeped in both Asian and Western timbres and tuning systems.

Cowell was solidly grounded and a brilliant theoretician of music, and of its multitude of possible scales, tuning systems and rhythmic and microtonal complexities.

Ives's sketches are fragmentary, but they suggest an immensely complex structure in which rhythms, tempos, harmonies, timbres, and tuning systems are superimposed in a cosmic blur.

American composer James Tenney was fixated on tuning systems that he felt were infinitely more complex and multi-layered than the standard equal temperament, the system through which Western orchestras and instruments are tuned.