[pianotech] Tuning Forks and their origin & calibration

Jason Kanter jkanter at rollingball.com
Fri Jan 21 16:41:48 MST 2011


When you warm the fork, it goes flatter.

>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

> ... I took my fork and; and 64 degrees compared to the "phone dial", it is
> close to A440...a little flat. I warmed the fork for a few minutes in my
> pocket to probably A-440.5. My fork was flat as I first thought on the first
> try.  The second try was only a minute later, so probably not up to 68.5, so
> what a thing! ...
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