[time-nuts] Re: Low cost synchronization, kitchen appliances

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Mon Aug 22 10:14:26 EDT 2005


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <43090342.8000301 at erols.com>, 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.

Good, then you should remember some important details:

Could he see the counter, or was the test done blind?
What variety of counter (cycle counting, or reciprocal) ?
What was the pitch variance from 440.0Hz?
How did you deal with all of the sympathetic resonances
that naturally occur within a violin?

-Chuck




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