You could see tuning forks are used widely in our life today. Many people love to sing and tone with the tuning forks as a musical instrument. Others like to use them on and around their body, often by placing them on or near acupressure or meridian points and chakra points as a sound healing tool. Of course, there is the obvious use of tuning forks for tuning musical instruments. The tuning forks could deliver superb tone quality, lengthy sustain, and beautiful harmonic overtones. That is why people love to use them in daily life.
Tuning forks are one of the fastest growing areas of therapeutic sound methods. People pay more attention in body of research on their effectiveness in application to mood disorders, states of relaxation, chronic joint discomfort, pain relief, even the latest science on their effect on nitric oxide release in our cellular cycles. There are two kinds of tuning forks. The non-weighted forks are best used for their acoustical effect (listening.) The weighted forks (extra weight visible on the end) carry vibration deeper into tissue, so excellent for direct therapeutic use in relation to our physiology, work with the chakras, etc.