Talk:Tuning fork
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- Invented in 1752 by George Friderich Handel's trumpeter John Shore,
The Oxford Companion to Music says 1711. -- Tarquin
1711 is correct. Handel left one of his tuning forks to some musical society of the other in London in 1751 (the details escape me), so it could hardly have been invented a year later. --Camembert
the prongs of a fork for eating are certainly called "tines", but is the same true of a tuning fork?
Sergeant Trumpeter to the court Which court - the royal British one? /Habj 11:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Soundboard?
From the article: When struck, it gives out a very faint note which is barely audible unless held right up to the ear. For this reason, it is sometimes struck and then pressed down on a solid surface such as a desk which acts as a soundboard and greatly amplifies the note.
Soundboard links to Mixing console - I would say the use of the word soundboard at this place in the article is wrong. --Abdull 10:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- Good point, well spotted. I've re-directed it to sounding board and added a disambiguation link at soundboard to sounding board.
- Flapdragon 18:27, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Density of the surrounding medium?
The speed of sound depends on the density of the surrounding medium. Therefore, the frequency should also depend on the surrounding medium as the length of the standing wave that forms on the tuning fork remains constant. For example, one would imagine that if the tuning fork were struck under water, say, for tuning an underwater guitar ;-), that its frequency would differ from that in air? Then again, the tuning fork appears to behave diffently to a classic resonant cavity as its frequency also depends on the material it's made from. Ga2re2t 10:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
No, the frequency is maintained, what varies is the wavelength. Because it is the fork itself that defines the frequency, by the time it takes to vibrate. On a medium with an higher propagation velocity, for a given frequency of the fork, the wavelength will be smaller, and vice versa. odraciRRicardo —Preceding unsigned comment added by OdraciRRicardo (talk • contribs) 05:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BioSonic Repatterning
Dr. John Beaulieu discovered BioSonic Repatterning while sitting in an anechoic chamber in New York University, and recognized the vibration patterns that correlated to musical notes at different octaves. He tried tuning forks at different octaves and could feel his body aligning with the tones.
What on earth is this supposed to mean? The whole paragraph has the ring of pseudo-scientific (and commercially-motivated) mumbo-jumbo and unless it can be expressed rationally it should be deleted. Flapdragon (talk) 12:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
