<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=000150104-13082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That's the way I always do it.  I wrap masking tape around the handle so it doesn't hurt my teeth.  Doing it that way for years...keeps the hands free and the pitch comes through crystal clear.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=000150104-13082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=000150104-13082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Andrew Olson</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Samuel Choy<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:17 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Was this weird?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today as I was starting to tune a piano, I struck my tuning fork on my knee. I needed a hand free or something. I don't remember...but anyway, I put the tuning fork, still vibrating, in my mouth and wow! As I grabbed it between my molars, the sound of the fork was amplified perfectly! I could hear the beats between he fork and the string better than I ever had before. On top of that I now had a hand free. So I held the fork in my mouth, thumped on the key with one hand, and tuned the string with the other, and prayed that the customer wouldn't walk in and see what a dork I must have looked like :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I actually don't really care about looking like a dork. I have a flashlight that I use when I need that straps to my head like a coal miner. That looks look dorky too, but it work great.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Happy weekend.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam Choy</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>