concertar un instrumento

Question

Taken from WotD.

Echoline wrote:

Concerté una cita entre bastidores para mirar a Jack Savoretti concertar su guitarra antes de su concierto.

Both Daniela and I agreed that this could not be used as "tune",

Well, there is a somewhat odd way to use it this way:

Taken from RAE:

> 5. tr. Acordar entre sí voces o instrumentos musicales.

Acordar entre sí: that is the moment when you go to a concert and all violins etc get to tune their instruments together before they start playing.

It appears that the same happens with voices.

This is a very unusual usage, neither Daniela nor I knew it existed. We had to check dictionaries.

Nice when two Sheilas can agree thanks mate avagdone. - ray76, Aug 17, 2017

Agreed. :) - ian-hill, Aug 17, 2017

wow, Sheila...nice word, you alway surprise me with these words, nice :) - 006595c6, Aug 17, 2017

Ya learn somethin new every day! lol - rac1, Aug 17, 2017

This use of the word is new for me as well. If somebody asked me I would have said it was wrong - 00fac92a, Aug 17, 2017

As you may have guessed, "Sheila" is Aussietalk for a "girl/woman" and "avagdone" Is "Have a good one" (Pásalo bien.) - Daniela2041, Aug 17, 2017

I have been learning "Aussietalk" and if I were to add it to my profile, I would call my level "intermediate." - Daniela2041, Aug 17, 2017

Answer 1

This use of the word is new for me as well. If somebody asked me I would have said it was wrong - Guillermo_O

This proves we should answer in a post not always everything in comments.

Gracias guille

Answer 2

My husband said that we could use "armonizar".

We could also use "ensamblar".

My husband used to be a chorus conductor , pianist and music teacher. He's retired now. Some technical music words, he tells me, could be used only in music circles. For example the verb "calar".
"Calar" is used among musicians , to say someone is singing out of tone, flatteng.I haven't seen it in DRAE. It seems it comes from Italian like many other music terms.

Calamento

That sounds a lot better. I've also heard "calar" before but only from musicians. - 00fac92a, Aug 17, 2017

@polenta1, I had to edit your post so that it's clickable. - NKM1974, Aug 17, 2017

Wasn't it clickable? Anyway thanks NK - polenta1, Aug 18, 2017