John Shore

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John Shore (* around 1662 ; † 1752 ) had been a royal trumpeter since 1711 and served as such during the coronation of King George I in 1714 , and in 1715 he was lutenist at the Chapel Royal. John Shore is considered to be the inventor of the tuning fork .

John Shore worked as a lutenist with both Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel . He used a self-designed tuning fork to tune his lute and called it jokingly Fork ( pitch fork , following pitch , the pitch) instead of tuning fork ( tuning fork ). He made the tuning fork out of steel with a pitch of 423.5 Hz .

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SURNAME Shore, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1662
DATE OF DEATH 1752