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Definition of Piano tuner
1. Noun. Someone who tunes pianos.
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Tune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piano Tuner
Literary usage of Piano tuner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1894)
"V. Green, Practical piano tuner and Repairer." Armed with these, a second-hand,
and probably worthless tuning hammer ami a screwdriver, he goes forth in ..."
2. The Hatzfeldt Letters: Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to His Wife, Written by Paul Hatzfeldt (1905)
"... the piano-tuner is in the next room playing all sorts of melodies fit to drive
me to distraction. If anyone takes it into his head to annoy me now, ..."
3. Recollections of a New York Chief of Police by George Washington Walling (1887)
"The "bogus" piano-tuner smiles serenely. He keeps up a strumming of the piano and
... Whatever made you think of sending a piano-tuner up to the house ? ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"He was the son of an innkeeper in his native city, where he received a good
education at the grammar-school, and was then apprenticed as a piano- tuner to a ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1865)
"The first elements of music and of piano playing were taught the lad by the old
piano tuner holding a whip in one hand and a score in the other. ..."
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