Welcome to the SWB 256 Tuning Forks "Learn" page. Here are a number of interesting links about different ways Tuning Forks are used. For Musical performance demonstrations, visit our Listen page.
Musical Tuning forks have been used in the medical field for decades, to test for hearing problems, bone fractures, diabetes, neurological issues and other medical conditions. In addition to hospitals and medical offices, many sound therapists, chiropractors, healers, energy and vibration therapists, and other wellness professionals use SWB 256 Tuning Forks. Included here are just a few articles for background. If you require a specialized Custom frequency or scale that is not part of the SWB 256 Pythagorean Harmonic Spectrum, Verdi, Chakra, Solfeggio or our other sets, please email.
Outcome measures of vibratory sensitivity using a 256-Hz tuning fork depend on the perception of vibration by the patient and qualitative comparison with sensory threshold on the examiner. The authors present their experience of comparison of vibratory sensation using a 512-Hz tuning fork with the conventional 256-Hz counterpart in normal volunteers. Read the full article HERE.
This article reviews the history of tuning fork tests, its current status as a clinical examination tool. All the commonly performed tuning fork tests are discussed in detail, including Rinne, Weber test and Absolute bone conduction test. Read the full article HERE.
The clanging tuning fork test can be used in screening diabetes patients for peripheral neuropathy, results from two studies suggest. Read the article HERE.
The tuning fork can help identifying fractures when radiographic evaluation is not available. Read the full article HERE.
Solfeggio Healing Frequencies
"How Best To Use The Solfeggio Frequencies" Use naturally vibrating SWB256 Tuning Forks rather than electronic tones. See the Solfeggio Set of 9 HERE.
Chakra Balancing
Working with Meridians and Chakras has been in use for thousands of years in Eastern medicine, from acupuncture and acupressure to yoga and healing. We include just one general article from Wikipedia HERE.
Video using Baker's Dozen Tuning Fork Set for Healing and Wellness. See the video HERE.
New Mexico Yoga teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist and Mindfulness Coach Alana Grier demonstrates in this video how to tune up. She uses the Baker's Dozen Set, with the 128 Hz and 136.10 Hz to revitalize and relax. Alana leads trainings to integrate tuning forks into therapeutic practice for Licensed Massage Therapists and Yoga teachers through her Yoga Alliance school. She is the lead instructor for the 200 Hour Dhvani Yoga Instructor Program with a focus on Nada Yoga, using sound and music to bring healing and balance, and naturally, she uses the 432 Hz tuning for music. Visit her website HERE. The Baker's Dozen is the unweighted chromatic Verdi Scale, true fifths scale from C 256 Hz to C 512 Hz. More information HERE.
Learn the math and physics of beat frequencies, which you will find when using two or more tuning forks and working with binaural beats. See these two videos: Beat Frequency Calculation for Sound in Physics and Beat Frequency Physics Problems
Return to the Verdi Tuning! To see videos, visit our LISTEN page. Since 1983, and especially since the Schiller Institute’s first conference at Casa Verdi in 1988, a vigorous campaign has been waged to lower the concert pitch back to the Verdi A=432 Hz, with famous opera singers, musicians and scientists demanding the lower, Verdi pitch to save the singing voice, stringed instruments, and to maintain the poetic intentions of the Classical Composers. Now in the 21st century, this is catching on!
This interview with renowned Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi, Kathy Wolfe of the Schiller Institute, and others, was aired on WQXR Radio in New York City on June 9, 1993. It was recorded on April 6, 1993, two days before Mr. Bergonzi held a special master class at Carnegie Recital Hall demonstrating the superiority of the natural tuning of C=256 Hz over the arbitrary high modern tunings of A=440Hz and above. June LeBell was the interviewer. Listen to the audio recording HERE.
The 432 hz, also called the "Verdian pitch" ( as Verdi was a huge defender of it ), or Pythagorean tuning, is the original frequency: used since the Greek and Egyptian civilizations by most of the musicians (a modern example of this is Giuseppe Verdi himself), this original frequency was preferred to other higher tuning. Nowadays, it is used to heal and re-establish the inner balance, especially in elderly people or in persons with disabilities. The Geminiai Project presents a number of videos discussing and demonstrating the 432 Hz standard. View them HERE.
The 432 Chamber Orchestra is among the first modern musical ensembles which tune their A at 432 Hz and the "open fifths making the orchestra a one-of-a-kind-ensemble.We are 14 people, who have athered with the intention to play chamber string orchestra repertoire in the 432 concert pitch. View their Facebook page HERE.
It was decades ago that the Schiller Institute made the fight for the Verdi tuning famous, and its international performances have been presented at the Verdi pitch of A 432 Hz. A new initiative was begun in 2014 to create Community Choirs singing bel canto Classical repertoire, at the proper tuning of C = 256Hz, A= 432 Hz. Visit their website HERE.
Classical music performance and study is now beginning to appear to possibly be one of the most efficient means to address the most chronic ailments of the increasingly failing public education system…” With a focus on educating students in the New York area, this group focusses on science and music and the harmony of the spheres. Visit their website HERE.
Anthony Morss, retired Conductor of the Verismo opera Association , elaborates the history of the development of Verdi's proper tuning of A=432 Hz. Watch the video HERE.
Tuning Forks are very useful tools in both scientific research and in education. Here are a few examples of how they are used in these fields.