Customer needs 415 Hz tuning fork

Robert Scott rscott@wwnet.net
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:46:10 -0400


JCSwafford asks:

 >Does anyone know who will sell 1 fork not in a set. This could be a G# fork,
 >but customer requested 415 Hz not 415.3 Hz for historical tuning.

It is not out of the question to take an ordinary cheap A-440 fork and lower
it all the way to 415 Hz if you are careful to file a notch in the exact
center where the two arms of the fork come together.  See my article in the
August Journal on calibration of pitch standards for details.

-Robert Scott
  Real-Time Specialties



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