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Tuning forks

Scope note

Tempered steel instruments consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite constant pitch when struck and serving as a standard as when tuning musical instruments and performing acoustical experiments. RHDEL2

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000212182

Broader Terms used

<tuning devices>

Equivalent Terms used

tuning fork

Created

13yrs ago

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