John Shore (trumpeter)

John Shore (c. 1662 † 1752) was from 1711 royal trumpeter and served as such in 1714 during the coronation of King George I., in 1715 he was lutenist to the Chapel Royal. John Shore is considered the inventor of the tuning fork.

John Shore worked as a lutenist with both Henry Purcell and Georg Friedrich Händel. He used a self-constructed tuning fork to tune his lute and called them jokingly fork ( pitch fork, on the basis of pitch, pitch ) instead of fork ( tuning fork ). He made the tuning fork made ​​of steel with a pitch of 423.5 Hz

• Lutenist
• Trumpeter
• Baroque trumpet
• Engineer, inventor, engineer
• Briton
• English
• Born in the 17th century
• Died in 1752
• Man