[CAUT] Barbie tuner

[Porritt, David]

There's always one!

 

dp

 

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Jim Busby
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:34 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Barbie tuner

 

List,

 

I won't name the fellow, but at the International Double Reed Society
conference here at BYU there is this "oboist" who is running around with
this tiny guitar tuner complaining that all the instruments are off. He
confronted me before one of his performances saying that the pitch of
the Shigeru was not A440 but was A442. He said the Hamburg D was also
A442 (Was supposed to be at A443). I told him I was confident the pitch
was where it was supposed to be on both instruments and that maybe his
small tuner was off. BAD thing to say! Boy was he mad! After his
performance, when most the people were gone, the head honcho watched me
measure the pianos. Less than 4/10ths of one cent off... (Dang! Will I
ever learn to keep my pitch dead on?)

 

Funny, but almost all his high notes were extremely flat. Or maybe I'm
just dreaming...

 

Jim Busby

 

p.s. Other than this unfortunate experience everyone else is very nice
and complimentary. 

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