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   Posted 8/12/2015 6:25 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
David, under the hood (American) = under the bonnet (British) of a car. So to fix something under the hood is to fix the engine.


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   Posted 8/12/2015 7:23 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
"Under the hood" refers to working on the engine of an automobile. The part that covers the engine is referred to as a "hood" (or "bonnet" in England.) Of course, it's less meaningful for rear or mid engine designs. The phrase refers to fixing things that make something work but are generally unseen.


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   Posted 8/12/2015 8:50 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Copied from http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/under-the-hood

under the hood

adjective

  • a metaphorical area that contains the underlying implementation of something - e.g. a piece of hardware, a piece of software, an idea, etc.
    Let's now look under the hood to see how the software goes about transmitting data so quickly.
    To understand how it really works we need to look under the hood.
    Does your excursion call for more power than the 173-horsepower four-cylinder under the hood?

    Last edited on Apr 17 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

  • inside the chassis of a piece of equipment, such as a computer.
    Under the hood, this baby has quad-core AMD Phenom!

    Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

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  • By reference to looking under the hood (aka "bonnet") of a motor vehicle to inspect its engine, transmission, etc.


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   Posted 8/12/2015 9:54 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Perhaps some operations that happen "under the hood" in Finale are those initiated by plugins and scripts.

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   Posted 8/12/2015 11:44 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There was talk this year that Apple would be focusing mostly on "under the hood" improvements for iOS 9, meaning that instead of focusing mostly on new features, they'd be cleaning existing things up to make them more reliable, faster, and perhaps cleaner. www.engadget.com/2015/02/09/ios-9-focus-is-under-the-hood/ There were objections to iOS 8, with many people feeling it was overly buggy.
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   Posted 8/12/2015 3:39 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I confess to having been a tad disingenuous in suggesting that I was unable to guess at the meaning of 'under the hood.' However, the responses have been useful and informative, and have gone way beyond my simple guess.

BTW, in UK motoring a 'hood' is a fold away top for the passenger compartment of a convertible car. 'Under the hood' might provide a rather different metaphor if derived from that usage …


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   Posted 8/15/2015 3:40 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I was away and unable to respond to the comments about Mozart playing computer games.

1. According to legend, Mozart was not only able to compose while gaming, but actually enjoyed doing so.

So I stick with K 1626.

2. It has been a while since I perused Mozart's letters, but I remember thinking at the time that Mozart was not an obsessive-compulsive gambler or the airhead portrayed in a certain play and movie, but actually the man one would have expected to be the greatest composer of all time, and one who would have used Finale to the fullest to write as much music as he could.

So again I stick with K. 1626.

To Germany's greatest composer! (toast directed at Brahms). Yes, to Mozart! (Brahms' response.) Quoted from somewhere.


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