<!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 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080>Sam,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080>I learned that trick from Bill Garlick at NBSS in the early 70's, and would hold the fork between my front teeth as standard practice.  By 1986, however, I needed restorative dental work on those teeth and the bones holding them in my mouth.  The rest of the mouth that never held the tuning fork was unaffected.  As a consequence, I switched to the Sanderson Accu-Fork.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080>Keeping in mind the health issues this technique can create, I advise you to be careful.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080>David Nadworny RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Sylfaen color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=sam@scpianoservice.com href="mailto:sam@scpianoservice.com">Samuel Choy</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:17 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Was this weird?</DIV> <DIV><BR></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>