[CAUT] Barbie tuner

[Porritt, David]

I understand what you’re saying.  Sometimes I think it’s insecurity on my part, sometimes I think I’m just embarrassed for them (you know that embarrassment you feel when the trumpet player cracks his high note, or the actor forgets his lines.)  These people just forget their manners and you’re embarrassed for them.

 

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 5:23 PM
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Thanks all.

You know, maybe I’m alone in this, but even though I know the piano was right on and someone like this is basically an ass, it still REALLY bothers me. And here I am 53 years old with the maturity of a 10 year old… :-) 

 

Cheers!

Jim Busby

 

 

 

 

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:08 PM
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Go figur. 

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

Paul 



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There’s always one! 
  
dp 
  
  
David M. Porritt, RPT 
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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
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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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