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?