Building a Businesss/getting experience,

[Vince Mrykalo]

> Date:          Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:29:26 -0600 (MDT)
> From:          Swwpiano@aol.com
> Subject:       Re: Building a Businesss/getting experience,

> I understood that to tune A440 to the fork, you play the tenth A4 on the
> piano (aka A49, aka A440) down to F33 , and compare the beat rates to the
> tenth between the fork at A440 and F33 on the piano. Tune A49  on the piano
> to make the beat rates of the  two tenths equal. Is this a valid test? one
> response suggested I use F2 (aka F25?) instead - does this mean just adding
> an octave to both test intervals? if so, is this just to make it easier to
> hear? I don't see how the result would be any different as I'm still
> comparing identical intervals... Thanks in advance for the clarification.

If you drop down to F2, a seventeenth below A440, the first coincidental
partial of that interval (the seventeenth)is A440.  That's where you
want to hear the beats, so you are actually comparing the fundamental
pitch of A440 with the fundamental of the fork, and not the second
partial which is slightly sharper in the string than in the fork.
Therefore, your A440 will be tuned a tad flat if you use F3 to check
between A440 and the fork.

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