Inside the UK’s oldest tuning fork factory in Sheffield

For Ragg, their fastest growing market is in sound therapy, where some users listen to a fork’s long ringing sound to calm them.

“Ultimately the benefits are relaxation,” says Christian Jensen, a sound therapy practitioner in Harrogate who regularly uses tuning forks.

“I have lots of different kinds of instruments including tuning forks, gongs, hand pans, native flutes, didgeridoos.

“The forks are popular in one-to-one sessions,” he adds.

Garrett says despite fewer people using tuning forks in the traditional way, Ragg are finding new ways to sell the product which they have been making for 185 years in what is now the UK’s oldest factory for the specialism.

“The market’s actually growing for tuning forks, more and more people are using them for different applications and we’re sending them all over the world.”