In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: >> I met a violinist some years back who suffered from a 440Hz tinitus on his >> left ear. When he tuned his fiddle after that, it was 440.0Hz measured >> with a frequency counter. > >Did you make this measurement, or were you just told of it? What was the >repeatablity?
I did. >The pitch one gets out of an open A string on a fiddle varies more than 1 cent >depending >on how you support the neck of the instrument, how hard you bow the string, >where you bow the string, and what day of the week it is... We measured the tone he produced and asked him to make it as steady as possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
