Customer needs 415 Hz tuning fork

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:19:28 -0500


At 12:46 10/09/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>JCSwafford asks:
>
> >Does anyone know who will sell 1 fork not in a set. This could be a G# fork,
> >but customer requested 415 Hz not 415.3 Hz for historical tuning.
>
>It is not out of the question to take an ordinary cheap A-440 fork and lower
>it all the way to 415 Hz if you are careful to file a notch in the exact
>center where the two arms of the fork come together.  See my article in the
>August Journal on calibration of pitch standards for details.
>
>-Robert Scott
>  Real-Time Specialties


Sorry, Wim.  I stand corrected. I didn't think one could file that much out 
of the crotch.
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