A variety of tuning forks comes in handy. I have 1. a small nickel-plated West German A440 fork the fellow I apprenticed with gave me. I like it best, although it is and looks rather inexpensive: 2. an aluminum Kitching or Scirocco C523.3 which I find very useful around the piano store because of its long sustain and is easily audible over store noise: 3. a blue steel C535 I use rarely to tune to the Old Pitch: 4. a nickel plated Deagan, which my father gave me, and which I carry in my case but never use. It has a bit of a story behind it. He had been steward of the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra and one responsibility was to see that there was always a tuning fork available for tuning up the orchestra. Therefore he bought the best tuning fork availble at the time, the Deagan made in Chicago. Not long ago I was called to tune a new Estonia Grand. I had been overdoing it. That doesn't pay, does it? My rule is never to do more than two pianos a day. This day my favourite little West German A440 fork, for some reason, I could not hear the pitch. I tried the Kitching aluminum - worse! For some reason I cold not relate the pitch of the fork to the pitch of the piano. I tried the C435. Same thing! The only thing that sounded loud and clear, was the Deagan. That must be the difference between a good and a poor fork. --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using jetstream.net Webmail. http://www.jetstream.net/
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