![]() The parents were trying not to cringe.Ī doctor will sometimes use a tuning fork to test whether or not a bone is broken. Ouch for the ears, but important to encourage the kids. Just imagine a class of 30 kids doing this all at once. If you have never played the recorder, they can be really out of tune if your blowing is too strong or too soft. Listening to the class perform together was an exercise in tolerance and patience. This frequency is standard for instruments so that all of the instruments in a group will sound harmonious when playing together.īoth of my sons learned how to play the recorder when they were in Grade 5. For example, a tuning fork made to ring at 440 Hz is usually what musicians tune their instruments to. Tuning forks are made to sound at one specific frequency. Because our bones are denser than the soft material of the body, sound will move through our bones faster than through the soft tissue. That is four times faster than through the air. Our bodies are about 80 percent water, so we can assume that a sound wave will move through the majority of our body at approximately the same speed sound travels through water. Have you ever heard or read about aboriginal hunters who put their ears to the ground to hear where the animals are walking or running? That is because sound travels through the ground faster than it travels through the air. It moves through steel, like railroad tracks, about 15 times faster than through the air. Sound moves through water about 4 times faster than through the air. In the air, sound moves at about 770 miles per hour. Typically, the denser a material is, the faster sound moves through it because the molecules are closer together. Sound moves at different speeds depending on what it is traveling through. It is useful to understand a little about how sound travels in order to understand how tuning forks work. It travels in a wave and pushes molecules around as it moves. We are beginning to understand that at the atomic level of matter, everything is in vibration. There are an infinite number of frequencies, so theoretically, there are an infinite number of tuning fork frequencies available. Since that experience, I have found that there are a wide variety of systems and ways of using tuning forks on the body. They both feel amazingly wonderful, but they have different purposes. It is like comparing a laser beam to a shower. Tuning forks are much more specific than a bowl. I was already familiar with the wonderful sensations in the body from holding and playing my Tibetan singing bowl. It was amazing to experience the beautiful low frequencies of those forks zip through my body. My interest in tuning forks was sparked a few years ago by an experience with the Ohm forks from the Acutonics system.
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