Oops, brain dead from inhaling that lacquer thinner earlier. This only works in an alternate universe where Bb is flatter than A. In our universe, cut off the end with a hack saw or a file. I¹m sure a half step would be possible. With a C fork, adding weight to the end will work. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico On 1/16/07 3:36 PM, "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > Hi Wim, > I'd recommend an electronic one. Lots of electronic metronomes have a pitch > source built in. Some have Bb as well as A and occasionally other pitches. I > suspect you could file a fork that far, if you really wanted to. Try it on an > old, beat up one and see. You could add weight to the end somehow (eg, drill > and tap a hole for a small machine screw), which would also make it flatter. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Willem Blees wrote: > >> Have any of you ever heard of a Bb fork? One of our assistant band >> directors asked if there was such a thing. He said most Junior and >> High School band pieces are in F or Bb. It would give the clarinet (or >> trumpet), something to tune off. Would it be possible to file the >> throat of an A fork up to a Bb? >> >> Wim >> Willem Blees, RPT >> Piano Tuner/Technician >> School of Music >> University of Alabama >> Tuscaloosa, AL USA >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070116/06e16337/attachment.html
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