tuning fork

[Isaac sur Noos]

Jeee.....

In orchestras actually most musicians carry those Seiko or whatever
brand tuners, the harpist are tuning almost without listening to their
instrument with a little contact mike, and that during everybody
warming.

While at the same time the "concert" tuner that have been just
realizing that this particular piano have to be bring to pitch 442
while it is more or less 440- is pounding as hell on that poor
Steinway, earplugs in hear, VT100 on plate, expecting the guys that
are mounting the stands for the 40 chorister to stop their hammering
soon enough for the conductor assistant suddenly ask for " SILENCE " !

No need special regime to loose weight then, only the usual 4 to 7
tunings. Sometime I am really so happy to be back to more civil work !

Best regards.

Nowadays all those pain in the ear, I have kept perfect pitch, mean A
440 without a fork at a few cts near more or less, depending of the
day ! Talking about perfect pitch, sound engineers are very good to
recognize the frequencies during the sound check, I just saw one today
that had a really accurate hear, recognizing any frequencies
immediately, pitch in Hertz but not tone name, to correct the response
of the room acoustic. Very impressive...


Isaac OLEG

> -----Message d'origine-----
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> Envoyé : jeudi 8 janvier 2004 14:01
> À : pianotech@ptg.org
> Objet : tuning fork
>
>
> 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.
>
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