tuned up

Meantime my mountain sickness tuned up something fierce, and I sat down on a big rock to wait for it to ease down.

Having tuned up after a fashion, the orchestra began to file away at some sort of a medley.

We just kind of bounced around in the crowd for a while as the bands tuned up and conferred with one another.

A little screech owl tuned up in the distance, a barn owl replied, and a great horned owl drowned both their voices.

There were no hardships, and one man had a fiddle which he tuned up evenings and gave plenty of fine music.