<!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 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref">That's a really funny mistake I made, = Bob!  I remembered one nugget, and got that wrong!  :-)  Of course it = doesn't matter which side of the interval F2 is on; we're tuning A4 here, not F2...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref">Thanks for keeping my brain cells challenged.  I will go back over your post.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref">--Cy--</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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=BobDavis88@aol.com href="mailto:BobDavis88@aol.com">BobDavis88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 21, 2004 = 2:40 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: setting pitch with = a fork</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref"></FONT><FONT face="Verdana Ref"></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV>By the way, in a tuned piano, F2-A4 ~is~ wide of a pure interval, = but for the purposes of setting the A, it really doesn't matter whether it's = set wide or narrow, as long as it's beating about 4-6 times a second [although = if F2-A4 is set narrow, A4 would slow down as you raised it, instead of = speeding up like when F2-A4 is wide]. The F2 is just used as a beat generator against the A4 of the fork and of the piano.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sincerely,</DIV> <DIV>Bob D</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>