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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tuning fork" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a tool used to produce a specific pitch or tone, often in musical contexts.
Example: "The musician used a tuning fork to ensure her piano was perfectly in tune before the concert."
Alternatives: "a pitch fork" or "a tone fork".
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A standard "A" tuning fork or piano may be used for the initial note.
My heart buzzed like a tuning fork.
He doesn't need perfect pitch; he has a tuning fork.
"Can you eat with a tuning fork?" one child asked.
An ultrawideband transmitter, however, works like a tuning fork.
Striking a tuning fork causes it to vibrate, sending out sound waves at a particular frequency.
The pole, as I caught it, was quivering like a tuning fork.
She ends: "The tenor of your heart/ is true as a tuning fork struck/ – and high!
He likened taking acid to "putting a tuning fork on your whole body".
Waves of the right frequency would make the cylinder ring like a tuning fork, he said.
Nc AFM measurements were performed with a tungsten tip attached to a tuning fork sensor54.
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