1Tune (something) again or differently.

1. 1.1 Put (a musical instrument) back in tune or alter its pitch.
   给（乐器）再调音
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   • She would need to retune some of the strings for Llyrana's tale, after all, and that she could only really do once it was in the hall and settled.
   • Rubber hammer buffers on some of the chimes and bells are being changed and then retuned.
   • Guitars were retuned to one note, drum kits were composed of just one drum and vocals were delivered in a way that placed absolutely no emphasis on harmony and melody, but on impact.
   • In the midst of the final cadenza in the third movement of the work, Linnebach, who had up to that time delivered a beautiful and relaxed interpretation of the piece, had to stop suddenly to retune her instrument.
   • How might modern Western instruments be transformed for Arab music, say by retuning the piano for microtonal modal systems?
   • He just hoped St. George's Primary School had got the piano retuned, like they'd promised.
   • These usually apply to violins, but here, McCreesh has experimented with retuning the violas as well, claiming that the resulting sonorities are much more satisfying and better balanced.
   • Ford nodded, took a sip from his beer and headed back up to the stage to retune his bass.
   • The Soepra gamelan used in the charity performance in Bandung, Sukisno noted, was already five years old and had not been retuned.
   • In their Blue Moon installation at the World Financial Center, Oldland & Auinger collected urban noises and retuned them into a ‘symphony’ that changed with the phases of the moon and tides.
   • The eight bronze bells were taken down last October and transported to Whitechapel, in London, where they were retuned.
2. 1.2 Tune (a radio, television, or other piece of electronic equipment) to a different frequency.
   为（收音机、电视等）重新调谐
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   • Listeners with a sensitive disposition should retune to KissFM at once.
   • Motorola has been testing new software that retunes the filter based on received signal strength.
   • She phoned the York TV hotline, was given another number, phoned that, got cut off twice and eventually had to call in the village's television expert to retune the equipment, for which she paid £15.
   • Local dealers have retuned televisions for their clients to receive the channel.
   • The channel launch was delayed by the need to retune millions of household video recorders.
   • It has left residents across the city having to retune their equipment to be able to watch a video or satellite channels.
   • Sky says that this would cause mayhem, requiring all their UHF set-top boxes to be retuned and possibly causing conflicts with frequencies used by the RF modulators in VCRs, Playstations, etc.
   • Can you have both a VHS and a DVD player and alternate between them (as in: one plugged in at a time) without too much messing about or retuning?
   • The costs of retuning millions of video recorders to enable viewers to get the service in the first place meant that money that should have been spent on programming had to be diverted elsewhere.
   • We had to pay a fee and put in a lot of new equipment and then retune everything.
   • They frantically retuned their transistors, but all they got was a faint signal from southern pirate Radio London.
   • Viewers in Glasgow and Merseyside can stop trying to retune their sets now.
   • Each daily contact began with Hamilton announcing a number, which referred to a personal code known only by Hamilton and Pole-Evans and led both to retune to a specific radio frequency.
   • He said that in the short term, people could retune their video and satellite equipment until the problem is resolved.
   • The only way we could change Hunmanby to Emley Moor would be by asking every viewer to retune their set, or accept that BBC ONE comes up on their BBC TWO button and vice versa.
   • This means that after one packet is sent on a channel, the two devices retune their frequencies to send the next packet on a different channel.