Not one spurned the invitation, and when the raucous noise subsided Philomel Whiffet tapped the tuning fork briskly on the edge of the stand, put it to his ear, and listened as he gazed thoughtfully downward.
Then he would fumble in his waistcoat pocket for the tuningfork and tapping it to chair rim or bootheel, he'd hold it to his ear, pitch the tune, and sing a verse or two of this ballad and of that.
You best strike the tuning fork and sing a tune or two before you start.
Taking the tuning fork from his waistcoat pocket, he looked thoughtfully at the school.
SMITH (Hermann), The Art of Tuning the Pianoforte, a New and Comprehensive Treatise to enable the musician to Tune his Pf.
Scipione Cerreto, however (Naples 1601), gives quite a different account of the Italian Lute of eight strings, the tuning of which seems to have extended the compass downwards to C under the bass staff.
They had an even shorter spell of rest, because new machines somehow require an appalling amount of work and overhauling and tuning up before any self-respecting Squadron considers them fit to carry their pilots.
So there are in mechanics an infinite number of tuning forks which will respond to a note of a certain pitch, or loaded springs which have a definite period of vibration.
In such case the secondary should be provided with an adjustable condenser for the purpose of tuning it to the primary.
One may, of course, enclose a tuningfork in an exhausted vessel and by thus reducing the air resistance to a minimum obtain better resonant action.
It is connected in parallel with the variable condenser used in the primary circuit and is used for the reception of continuous waves where sharp tuning is essential.
This price also includes a crystal detector, an adjustable tuning coil, a single telephone receiver with head-band and the wire, porcelain insulators, lightning switch and ground clamp for the aerial wire system.
Disk-shaped coils that are used for receiving tuning inductances.
As a matter of fact a tuning fork is simply a steel bar bent in the middle so that the two ends are parallel.
Connect the post of the tuning coil with one of the end posts of the switch and the clip of the tuning coil with the other and complementary post of the switch.
Simple acoustic resonance is the direct reinforcement of a simple vibration and this condition is had when a tuning fork is mounted on a sounding box.
In the deep green of the bushes a nightingale pealed forth his liquid plaint into the balmy night air, while from the ballroom inside the tuning of violins mingled inharmoniously.
She shivered and then rapidly glided into the adjoining room, where the jumble of sounds produced by tuning a variety of musical instruments was now heard.
These two tuning forks must be kept in step with great precision.
As the blades of the tuning forks vibrate, the capacitance is alternately increased and decreased by the required amount.
They sat about on chairs in little groups laughing, joking, telling tales, and complaining while the tuning of the orchestra furnished an accompaniment to the buzz of voices.
The orchestra was tuning its instruments; "Halt" went for a drink of beer, and the company scattered about the garden.
Soon there comes the sound of tuning the violin, while the older voice is still heard praising one thing and another, and asking careless questions.
As emphasized, the internal secretions are like tuning keys, and tighten or loosen the strings of the organism-instrument, the nerves.
The glands are liketuning keys, by which certain strings in the instrument may be tightened, so that its vibratory activity is increased, or they may be loosened, the vibrations decreased, the activity lessened.
Tuning up the motors is a constant process in the organism.
I wonder what instinct impelled you Your dreamy dark eyes to upraise, That for one happy second's communing Met mine that had waited so long-- And the wail of the violins tuning It turned to a jubilant song!
I wouldn't be surprised to hear her begin talking at any time," confided Cummins to Jan, one evening when the boy was tuning his violin.
In de Bristol Channel," chuckled the black cook, who stood tuning a fiddle by the side of the chest.
Before concluding these articles we shall return to this subject of electric resonance and syntony, and discuss it with reference to what is called the tuning of Hertzian wave stations.
Georg Seibt for showing in an interesting manner the syntonisation or tuningof two electric circuits.
A matter which has been in dispute in connection with practical Hertzian wave telegraphy is how far this electrical tuning is a sufficient solution of the practical problem of isolation.
The method by which this tuning is achieved is to insert in the portion of the aerial below the spark balls, between it and the earth, a hot wire ammeter of some form.
We ourselves by the tuning of our own thoughts determine which it shall accomplish.
The tuning of the body to delicate response and high endeavour enables the spirit to express its melody the better, and therefore it is incumbent upon the musician to cultivate a high standard of physical health.
In exactly the same way a familiar tuning fork will respond only to another tuning fork having exactly the same "tune," or number of vibrations per second.
The importance of the new system of tuning can hardly be overestimated.
Who has not sympathised with his effort to perfect his devices, to produce a tuning apparatus by means of which messages flying through space could be kept secret?
And Mr. Marconi has now succeeded in bringing this tuning system to some degree of perfection, though very much work yet remains to be done.
If a lady could obtain the tuning of the pianos of her friends, they might speak to others, and in that way she might succeed in obtaining sufficient custom to make a very comfortable support.
Regulating is done by the touch, tuning by the ear.
The stranger was still talking to Egbert in German when the sounds of tuning instruments in the next room drew his attention.
Remaining on same station, readjust station selector for maximum volume and readjust the Delco Syncro-Tuning Condenser unit for maximum output.
Careful tuning will result in better tone quality from all stations.
By means of a small screw driver inserted in the hole which was covered by the small cap, adjust the Delco Syncro-Tuning condenser unit for maximum output in the speaker.
The first hum of the season was just beginning, like the big orchestra of London tuning up.
Soon the White Viennese Band was tuning up, and the house, which was built like a large bungalow, decorated all over with crimson rambler rosebuds, looked very gay and charming.
He said he had put many taps on the coil and he twisted his antenna to these taps trying various combinations with the tuning capacitor.
The then Editor of QST wrote: "We have tested most of the circuits used by the Britishers and find them one and all decidedly inferior to our standard American regenerative circuit using variometer tuning in secondary and tertiary circuits.
He said the tuning capacitor he had made was obviously too small and he had to alter the taps on the coil continuously.
