On 2/28/09, Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> wrote: > I tried it years ago, but I don't think the fork set itself had a good > temperament to begin with. > One of these days I'll put them up against my ETD and try to confirm > what my ears told me. > > What if your fork set flunks the test? Then what??? > > Conrad I dug out ye olde Deagan No.178 Tonometer and did a very quick test against my RCT Pianalyzer, set to read ¢. C4 - +1.35 # +0.31 D +0.9 # +0.25 E +0.59 F +0.33 # +0.3 G +1.07 # +1.15 A 0.0 !!! # -.026 B -.027 C5 +0.63 You CTEs figger out what that score would be... ;-} What I found out: It takes a long time for the forks to settle on room temperature. When I went back to A it was at -.94¢. (It's warm in here, right now.) If you were to use this set, the heat from your hands varying over all the forks and however much time necessary would make Olympic Trap shooting seem easy. Better to use your ears and 1 (one) well-calibrated fork. My .87¢ (Dow Jones 2¢) Conrad
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