tuning forks and beat rates

[Brian Holden]

I use a C fork - always have - probably always will.  Brian
bholden@wave.co.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Kanter <jkanter@rollingball.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, 29 October 1999 17:49
Subject: tuning forks and beat rates


>Reading all this discussion with great interest. It appears that you folks
>generally use an A tuning fork. Zat so? I learned to use a middle C fork
>(thick aluminum Kitching) and then set the temperament from F to F. Is that
>method out of fashion these days?
>
>(gawd I feel like such an old timer asking these kinds of questions, since
>everything I learned was in the 70s ... went to the Piano Technicians
>Convention in Cleveland in 1971 and I was the youngest guy there ... but
I'm
>just 51 and still a successful sales/service consultant and looking forward
>to getting back into the tuning biz exclusively in later years)
>
>and speaking of beat rates - I only remember one mnemonic for getting beat
>rates, which was to repeat "from mississippi to new york" while watching a
>second hand tick. This produces 8 syllables per second. There were other
>mnemonics too, one for 7/sec and probably one for 9 or 10, but I don't
>remember them. Can anyone chime in? This is just for sentimental value and
>conversation piece, you know.
>
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