Alan and David on F3/A4

Don Price dcp3@twol.com
Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:09:16 -0700


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Kent  -   What a great discussion this is.  What is most amazing to me 
is how you got those graphics into your computer and to us.  *How did 
you do that???*

Don

Kent Swafford wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:57 AM, BobDavis88@aol.com 
> <mailto:BobDavis88@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Not meaning to embarrass anyone, but just to avoid confusion to those 
>> learning the trade, this is not correct. A perfectly tuned 440 A4 on 
>> the piano produces a second partial which is slightly sharp of 880. 
>> IF the fork produces 880 at A5 (which has recently been called into 
>> question), we would have to bring A4 DOWN (under 440) to match its 
>> 2nd partial to the fork's 2nd partial.
>>  
>> Bob Davis
>
>
>
> Who just said this subject was easy?   8^)
>
> Let's see if I can get it right. Here are a few readings taken this 
> morning of a John Walker A fork and a Yamaha grand. They show that Bob 
> is correct. No obfuscations. No smoke and mirrors.
>
> The first attached graphic shows an RCT Pianalyzer readout of an A4 
> tuning fork. Note that the Inharmonicity column shows uniformly zero 
> inharmonicity.
>
>
>
> The second attached graphic shows an RCT Pianalyzer readout of a 
> piano's A4. If the 2nd partials from the two graphs were tuned 
> together (as would be the case using F3 as a test note to tune the two 
> together), then there would be a 1.2 cent offset at the fundamental. 
> That is, if the piano A's 2nd partial were tuned down to match the 0.0 
> of the fork's second partial, then the piano's A would be flat by 1.2 
> cents.
>
> If this were on the PTG tuning exam, the examinee would have used up a 
> substantial portion of the tolerance in doing so. Please use F2 to 
> match the fundamentals of the pitch source and the piano's A when 
> setting pitch.
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> Kent
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