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TUNING FORK

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUNING See also:

FORK , a small See also:bar of See also:cast See also:steel with tolerably defined edges, See also:bent into a fork with two prongs, with a handle of the same See also:metal extending from the See also:bend of the fork and serving as a See also:sound-See also:post to transmit the vibrations to any resonance See also:board or See also:body convenient for reinforcing the sound. The fork is set in vibration by striking one of the prongs against a hard substance, or pressing the prongs together if they are See also:light ones, or if heavy See also:drawing a See also:bow across. The tuning fork was invented by See also:John See also:Shore, royal See also:trumpeter in 1711, sergeant trumpeter at the entry of See also:George I. in 1714, and lutanist to the See also:Chapel Royal in 1715. It is used for determining musical See also:pitch (see PITCH), and also in certain See also:physical experiments (see SOUND).

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