From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!azure!gregg@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: metronome problem
Article-I.D.: azure.1209
Posted: Tue Sep 14 11:27:46 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 06:56:26 1982

Has anybody ever worked on a "Super-Mini-Taktell" metronome (the little
red ones)?  Mine was getting really slow, so I took it apart and cleaned some
dust out of it, and put a little (valve) oil on a couple of bearings.  That got
rid of the problem, but caused a new one: the metronome now seems to prefer
5/8 time to 2/4.  Of course, there are little positioning tricks I can use to
get an even beat, but I'd prefer to have it work correctly on a level surface.
Any suggestions for an adjustment?  Go ahead and reply to the net, because
it seems like 2 out of 3 musicians have eccentric metronomes.

Greg Gadeholt
Tektronix MDP