[CAUT] Barbie tuner

[Paul T Williams]

Go figur.

You just have to smile and assure.  Education sometimes works, but 
usually, they "know it all"

Paul




"Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> 
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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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