<!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 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just remembered one = thing:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I was at school, I met some = Steinway (hamburg of course) and Schimmel apprentices who showed us the way they used = their tuning fork.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In fact, they had learned to wedge the = tuning for between the last key of the medium and the first key of the medium, = paying attention so that the fork is in contact with the keyframe.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, they banged on it when they wanted = the A to sound, and they had their both hands free to tune while the fork was = resonating thanks to the keybed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a lot of difficulty to = completely remember how they did it, but I think this is the idea.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anybody ever seen = that?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or maybe I dreamt of it, but i'm pretty = sure they did it that way !</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>quentin</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>