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Tuning fork   /tˈunɪŋ fɔrk/   Listen
adjective
Tuning  adj.  A. & n. from Tune, v.
Tuning fork (Mus.), a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.






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"Tuning fork" Quotes from Famous Books



... exactly what you are doing, that I suppose I should tell you what I am doing by way of an example. I have a room now, a part of the twelve-foot verandah sparred in, at the most inaccessible end of the house. Daily I see the sunrise out of my bed, which I still value as a tonic, a perpetual tuning fork, a look of God's face once in the day. At six my breakfast comes up to me here, and I work till eleven. If I am quite well, I sometimes go out and bathe in the river before lunch, twelve. In the afternoon I generally work again, now alone drafting, now with Belle dictating. Dinner ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson



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