online pitch source

[Philippe Errembault]

Ok, criticise the precision of your PCs, but do you have any idea how
precise is your tuning fork ?
I have found on the net that a steel tuning fork can be as precise as 0.05
Hz while an aluminium one
would start a 0.2 Hz, quickly degrading to 0,5 Hz

I think a PC with a common soundcard, playing a calibrated wave file is ...
not to be compared
with a steel fork, but probably as precise as a common aluminium fork...

If you use tune lab after having properly calibrated it, then it can be as
precise as a steel tuning fork.

Philippe Errembault


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Blum" <piano at sover.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: RE: online pitch source


> All this discussion gets me to thinking oscilloscopes, microphones,
> and especially tuning forks aren't so bad after all.
> -- 
> Sid Blum
> sid at sover.net
>
>