John Shore (trumpeter)

For the British official of the East India Company, see John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

John Shore (c. 1662 – 1752) was an English trumpeter. He invented the tuning fork in 1711.[1] Shore was Sergeant Trumpeter to the court, who had parts specifically written for him by both George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Feldmann, H. (2008). "Die Geschichte der Stimmgabel - Teil 1: Die Erfindung der Stimmgabel, ihr Weg in der Musik und den Naturwissenschaften" [History of the tuning fork. I: Invention of the tuning fork, its course in music and natural sciences. Pictures from the history of otorhinolaryngology, presented by instruments from the collection of the Ingolstadt German Medical History Museum]. Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie (in German) 76 (2): 116–22. doi:10.1055/s-2007-997398. PMID 9172630.
  2. ↑ Shaw, Watkins (2004). "Shore, John (c.1662–1752), trumpeter". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37955.