Bill Gurstelle shows you how to make a tuning fork from a piece of aluminum in this video complementing his column in MAKE Volume 29.
https://makezine.com/29
Subscribers can read Bill’s article here: http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol29/?pg=174&pm=2&u1=friend
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To complement his ReMaking History column in MAKE Volume 29, Bill Gurstelle shows you how to make a tuning fork with some simple tools and a strip of aluminum.
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That is really awesome!
If we’re being really band-geeky here (and I am, because I’m a classically-trained musician!) A440 is only the pitch most of us in the western world tune to. As I’ve found to my own peril (I used to play the oboe professionally), some countries in Europe don’t use A440 as the tuning standard.
In fact, some orchestras in the U.S. don’t use A440, and use A420 instead!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pitch_standards_in_Western_music#19th_and_20th_century_standards