How to pronounce tune

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What tune means

verb

Most people know tune in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To fix an instrument so its notes sound right

In a sentence: Before the concert, Leo had to tune each string on his guitar.

Where it comes from: It comes from tune, an old form of the word tone, from a Greek word for a tone. No one knows why the spelling changed.

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