"Tuner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hesitated, tempted to turn back. He hated moving pictures. They always had love scenes somewhere in the story, and love scenes hurt. But Frank had already bought two tickets, and it seemed unfriendly to turn back now. He went inside to the jangling of a player-piano in dire need of a tuner's service, and sat down near the back of the hall with his hat upon his lifted knees which could have used more ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... replied with a gesture. It was a gesture they had learned from the boot-and-knife boy, and they had once been spanked for practicing it on the piano-tuner. The boot-and-knife boy called it "cocking a snook," and it consisted in raising a thumb to one's nose and spreading the fingers out. It was defiance and insult in tabloid form. Then she turned and plodded on. The opaque wall of the wood was before her and over her, but she ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... olden songs, Nor melt in echoes on the tranced breeze; The streams flow on to music all their own; The magic of my lyre hath pass'd away, For Love ne'er sweeps sweet music from its chords; For thou art pass'd away, Eurydice; Thou tuner of my song, Eurydice; And there is nought to guide the erring tones That once breath'd but of thee, Eurydice; That made each breeze sweet with Eurydice; And taught each fountain and each running stream To sing of thee, O ...
— Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... it is too expensive to have it tuned so often; it gets out of tune again so quickly. It is an old, small-legged piano, as you see: mamma is always saying, when I am older I shall have a Chickering. The tuner comes regularly once in three months; the time ...
— Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of - Musical Performances • Friedrich Wieck |
