Klarinet Archive - Posting 000770.txt from 1998/01

From: "John Gates" <cadenza@-----.com>
Subj: Re: holes in metronomes
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:56:41 -0500

Stick a pencil in it and voila! it stands up
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From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: holes in metronomes

>Okay, I got my nice new Seiko DM-20 metronome, and I'm very pleased. It
>is plenty loud, so that was no problem, and it only cost about $26. It
>really is just a little larger than a credit card. My question is:
>what is the hole for? There's a hole in the lower right corner, about
>8mm in diameter, obviously by design, but there's no explanation for it
>anywhere. All the other "credit-card" metronomes in the catalog seem to
>have one too. The best I can come up with is that if you put a pencil
>through it, it props it up so you can place it in view on a table or
>piano or whatever, since lying flat it's a little hard to see. Any
>other ideas? Hang it from your lanyard when you go camping? Use it as
>a keychain? What?
>
>Bill E.