On 12/27/2012 1:14 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote: > Two questions. > > If there are folks like me, facing trifocals in glasses, > have any chosen to put the far range in the middle, and the mid-range in > the top? I’m having to get new glasses and I think they will recommend > trifocals- me being 67 and all. 65, bifocals and looking over adequate to this point, but have cataract surgery coming up very soon, so that could change. Oh boy, another rules change... > Do any of you carry a “tuner”, which will play a wide > variety of notes, which will not push the button while in a tool case, > thus running down the battery while it lies in the case? No, just a fork, with a backup in the truck - in case. Sometimes puns are so easy they aren't even fun. >I left my > tuning fork somewhere, and have found that A-440 in itself does not > really indicate if a pitch raise is necessary. I’d like to have > something with a slide switch instead of a push button. The old Accu-Forks have a slider, but I don't see it as necessary. In a lot of cases, I can't tell if a piano needs a pitch raise or not by checking 440, or whatever. That section of the piano moves only slightly more than the bass, which hardly moves at all. Tune your A to the pitch source, and compare to the next octave up, and the double octave, and the need for a pitch raise will be strikingly obvious, one way or the other. If one note isn't enough, rough in a fourth and fifth to an octave from the A, and check again. If that's not enough... etc. Use what you have. Ron N
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