Tuning forks

[Terry Beckingham]

Hey Richard,

Bite your tongue. This poor kid in Canada is 54 and his customers and
mentors seem to think he tunes pretty well. <G>

Terry

At 04:03 AM 10/31/99 +0100, you wrote:
Poor
>kid in Canada talking about spending 300 dollars for an electronice
>tuning fork,
>just so he can be assured of an accurate enough source to set pitch at.
>Never
>mind if he can tune or not, just make sure that pitch source is
>accurate. <grin>
>
>Richard Brekne
>I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway
>
>Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> II never used anything other than a $3.00 tuning fork that you can buy at the
>> counter of any music store.  Anytime I either took the exam or did a trial
>> run of the procedure for practice, I always scored within tolerance at 100%.
>> Just yesterday, coincidentally, a customer questioned the accuracy of my SAT.
>>  He thought that it should match a tuning fork.
>
>> If your pitch score is at passing level, you will proceed with the Exam.
>> Regardless of whatever small discrepancy there is between your pitch and the
>> "Master" Tuning, (I like Kent Swaffords idea of renaming this a "Reference"
>> Tuning), your exam results are automatically shifted to match the pitch.  So,
>> even if, for example you barely passed the pitch phase at 80 but you tuned a
>> perfect Temperament and Midrange, your scores will reflect that.  Your pitch
>> score only matters in that column alone and has no effect whatsoever on the
>> rest of your Exam.
>>
>> Have courage,
>>
>> Bill Bremmer RPT
>> Madison, Wisconsin
>