This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mark, et al; Your suggestion works great. What I did was to go to = Radio Shack and buy 1/4" heat shrink tubing, cut a small piece off and = heat it to the shank. That way, you don't have to clamp down! A really = cheap fix too. Nobody needs to feel a tuning fork vibrating on their = teeth! Kevin E. Ramsey ramsey@extremezone.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mark Wisner=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:26 AM Subject: Re: not enough hands -- setting A49 to fork I clamp down on the end of the fork stem with my teeth, freeing up = both hands. My wife, who is a dentist, doesn't approve but you can = REALLY hear the fork. Of course you have to be careful where you put = the fork when you're not using it.....=20 Mark Wisner Yamaha Corporation mwisner@yamaha.com >>> piano@charlesneuman.net 05/24/02 09:43AM >>> When setting A49 to the fork, I like to compare F21-fork with F21-A49. = It seems that I need three hands to do this: One to play F21, one to hold = the fork or play A49, and one to move the lever. Since I only have 2 hands, I keep F21 held down by putting a mute sort = of sideways and resting on the backchecks of the neighboring notes (on a vertical piano) so that it blocks F21 in the depressed position. Or I = can jam a mute along the top of the key to keep it down, but that seems = like it would mess up the felt right above the keytop. Once it's held down, then I can compare F21-fork and then tune F21-A49 to that same beat = rate. Are there any other techniques I should consider? Charles Neuman PTG Associate, Long Island-Nassau ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/31/02/ec/dc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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