Lament for a lost tuning fork

Thomas A. Sheehan aquinas@nyct.net
Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:01:11 -0700


Dear List - 

Finally happened, after 22 years of carefully calibrated service. My Deagan
tuning fork (large), A=440.00 cps, has disappeared. Backtracking is
impossible because I was using it out of town on a piano that was being
used as a practice piano in a college dorm. It has since been moved. 

What a loud magnificent ring it had! I had learned to warm it properly so
that it would be at 440 exactly. (Sob, sob, sob!).

Anyway, can anyone recommend which of the large steel tuning forks to get?
I've seen some advertised in APSCO and Schaff. Perhaps there are other
sources (Renner? Fletcher & Newman? Itoshin?) that I should be
investigating. I do have both an AccuFork II and RCT. But nothing gives
comfort to an old aural tuner like one's reliable, non-electric steel
tuning fork, n'est-ce pas?

Thanks for your replies.

Sincerely,

Tom Sheehan, RPT
NYC Chapter
aquinas@nyct.net


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