Tuning forks

[Richard Brekne]

Terry Beckingham wrote:

> 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

Grin... But Terry.. that was my point.  He probably is a fine tuner, and
will
probably get better and better. My point is why should the fellow have
to get all
stressed out about this "exactly 440" issue to the point of haveing to
spend 300
dollars on a tuning fork so he can get passed this pitch setting part of
the exam ??
He seemed pretty worried about it all, and I fail to see the neccessity
of that.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

>
>
> 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
> >