Tuning

Examples

• Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Fasten a stiff bristle to a tuning fork by means of wax, allowing the end of the point to rest lightly upon a piece of smoked glass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Size and shape determine to a large degree the period of a body; for example, a short, thick tuning fork vibrates more rapidly than a tall slender fork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There must therefore be accurate tuning of the two instruments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They're beginning upstairs,' said the stranger--'hear the company-- fiddles tuning--now the harp--there they go. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A vibrating tuning fork traces a curved line on smoked glass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The tuning of the piano is the adjustment of the strings so that each shall produce a tone of the right pitch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As I had also been working on a telegraph system employing tuning-forks, simultaneously with both Bell and Gray, I was pretty familiar with the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was then experimenting with sending eight messages simultaneously over a wire by means of synchronizing tuning-forks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the phonograph, a diaphragm replaces the tuning fork and a cylinder (or a disk) coated with wax replaces the glass plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The action of the pointer in reporting the vibrations of a diaphragm is easily understood by reference to a tuning fork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A tuning fork cannot vibrate in more than one way, and hence has no overtones, and its tone, while clear and sweet, is far less pleasing than the same note produced by a violin or piano. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Methods of tuning the instruments have been adopted which limit the influence of the currents to properly tuned receivers and in this way some degree of secrecy is attained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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