Re: [scots-l] Tuning and Electronic Tuners

[Toby Rider]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:

> >An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
> >what your ear is "measuring", hearing,  on a "note" on an acoustic
> >instrument is much more.
> 
> I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!). 



        I also prefer a pitch fork, they are very useful to have around
when several piano accordion players arrive unexpectedly :-)


Toby



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