Citations:tunester


 * 1903, The Writer, volume 16, William H. Hills, Robert Luce, :
 * Natural gift may produce a rhymester, but he is not invariably a poet any more than a rag-timer is a cultivated musician. He is simply a tunester, and very often in this confusing day, I find the tunester is the better fellow of the two.


 * 1935, John Tasker Howard, Ethelbert Nevin, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, :
 * Music as a pleasurable pastime, as one of the mental resources of the cultured gentleman, of course; he himself was an amateur musician and a tunester.


 * 1946, John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, page 674:
 * Frank Loesser (1910—) had been achieving a distinguished reputation as a lyricist for popular songs, when he came into prominence also as a tunester, by writing both words and music for Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (1942); What Do You Do in the Infantry (1943), and several others including Rodger Young, and First Class Private Mary Brown.