<!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 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Ric,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Both my aluminum fork and my steel fork have a = detectable second partial, about 10% the volume of the fundamental, and no = inharmonicity, as clearly shown by TuneLab.  Hit it with a piece of wood, and you = can hear all kinds of high partials.  Your fork may be = different.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy--</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=ricbrek@broadpark.no = href="mailto:ricbrek@broadpark.no">Ric Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 11, = 2006 1:38 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> The Beat that isnt: = was An apology--Ed Sutton</DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>...there is something amiss with = the whole <<second partial>> of the tuning fork to begin with. A few = people threw out a couple statements.. one even declared that tuning fork manufacturers dont spend any time tuning this frequency around = 880Hz.  The truth of the matter is that it simply doesnt exist.  </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>