Play chakra tuning forks
Seven forks, weighted or unweighted, with an interval mode that reports the beat between any two.
Chakra Tuning Forks
Seven forks, weighted or unweighted, with an interval mode that reports the beat between any two.
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Strike any two forks in a row and the interval between them is shown. Weighted forks ring lower and longer and are traditionally used on the body; unweighted are brighter and used near the ears.
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A tuning fork is almost a pure tone — one strong fundamental, one weak inharmonic partial around 6.27 times it that dies away in the first second, and a very long decay. That purity is the point: it is why forks are used for precise work where a bowl would be too complex.
The weighted toggle changes the timbre, not just the volume. Weighted forks have mass on the tips, ring lower and longer and are traditionally applied to the body where you feel the vibration through bone. Unweighted forks are brighter, decay faster and are used near the ears. Switch between them on the same frequency and the difference is obvious.
Strike any two forks in a row and the interval readout gives the difference in hertz and the ratio between them. That difference is the beat frequency — the slow pulsing you hear when two close tones sound together, and the thing two-fork practice is actually working with.
What this needs next
Real forks need a proper activator and a way to keep them from knocking together in a bag — chipped tines go out of tune. Solfeggio sets and body-tuner pairs are the two common formats.
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