<html><body> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Everyone, and good morning.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Does anyone here have any person experience with an electronic pitch source rather than using a tuning fork?  Are they reliable.  I'm contimplating ordering one.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <DIV>-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Ric Brekne <ricbrek@broadpark.no> <BR><BR>> Hi David <BR>> That thought has crossed my mind on more then one occasion as well. Tho <BR>> Virgil uses this kind of description in relation to his <<BEATLESS <BR>> octaves>>. Still... the wholistic aspect of the perspective strikes me <BR>> as much the same. <BR>> <BR>> Cheers <BR>> RicB <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> --------------------------------------------------------- <BR>> This sure sounds like Virgil Smith's "whole tone" tunings... <BR>> <BR>> David Ilvedson, RPT <BR>> Pacifica, California <BR>> <BR>> >Their idea of a clean unison... one I have come more and more to rely on <BR>> >as time has passed since my last stay there..... has to do with how long <BR>> >one can stretch out a kind of conglomerate beat rate of the most audible <BR>> >lowest coincidents. In almost every case you can keep it from going <BR>> >full circle if you cant get it to level out perfectly. Sometimes you <BR>> >might have to exept a kind of sideways flutter... but no full circle <BR>> >wave was ever accepted. <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </DIV></body></html>