[CAUT] Barbie tuner; Jim, don't you know the oboe player is the only true pitch...?

[Kendall Ross Bean]

Jim~

 

This is serious. No, really. Do you realize what you've just done?

 

Is it possible your Accutuner needs calibration? How do you know for sure
it's right on? Don't you know that the oboe player is the pitch reference
for the whole orchestra?! 106 people depend on him! How could he possibly be
off? That would destroy both his status and reputation in one swell
foop....! His whole livelihood, self-image and, possibly, existence (-we
won't mention eternal salvation-) depends on being right. How could you do
such a thing!  ;-).

 

(Better sell the oboe player an Accutuner...where's Rick Baldassin right
now....isn't he the local Accutuner rep up there...?)

 

;-)

 

~Kendall Ross Bean

 

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From: Jim Busby [mailto:jim_busby at byu.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:34 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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