Fork temp (was C fork/A fork)

[Jason Kanter]

Depends which C and which A. The image in my mind was of setting middle C to
fork, in which case the A above that is going to be sharp.
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From: Don <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:46:57 -0600
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Fork temp (was C fork/A fork)


Hi Jason,

Don't you mean *flat* of A? If there is inharmonicity?

At 09:27 AM 4/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Tommy Black says:
>> I use C fork 523.3....always. I must be "right on" A440.
>
>You must be right on 440 if there is zero stretch in the piano (not on this
>planet). The tuning fork sets  your "zero" point for stretch, and if that
>zero point is C, the A is going to be sharp.
>
>Not by much, though.


Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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