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Herb Gottlieb wrote:
>1. If a tuning fork had only one tine it would be called a tuning pick
>or a tuning skewer rather than a tuning fork.
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>2, The tines balance each other by always vibrating in opposite
>directions. This tends to increase the time that the fork
>vibrates after having been struck.
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>Herb
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>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:25:10 -0600 "Sykes, Dave" <Dave.Sykes@llcc.edu>
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>> Why do tuning forks have two tines?
>>(A student asked and I didn't have any answer)
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>>Dave