Hi Wim, I'd recommend an electronic one. Lots of electronic metronomes have a pitch source built in. Some have Bb as well as A and occasionally other pitches. I suspect you could file a fork that far, if you really wanted to. Try it on an old, beat up one and see. You could add weight to the end somehow (eg, drill and tap a hole for a small machine screw), which would also make it flatter. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Willem Blees wrote: > Have any of you ever heard of a Bb fork? One of our assistant band > directors asked if there was such a thing. He said most Junior and > High School band pieces are in F or Bb. It would give the clarinet (or > trumpet), something to tune off. Would it be possible to file the > throat of an A fork up to a Bb? > > Wim > Willem Blees, RPT > Piano Tuner/Technician > School of Music > University of Alabama > Tuscaloosa, AL USA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070116/47adab5c/attachment.html
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