[CAUT] Barbie tuner

[Kendall Ross Bean]

Jim~
 
I just had an inspiration!
 
You could both be right! (-now don't lose me here...this is important) :
 
Which partial was the oboe player listening to? And you! Which partial were
you tuning to? (Uh huh, I thought so!)
 
You see! It IS possible. It's spelled
I..N..H..A..R..M..O..N..I...C...I...T...Y...
 
Did you know that oboe tone is closest to a pure sine wave? And that pure
sine waves are most always perceived as flat? (Oh yes, -most 'specially by
piano tooners)
 
Just go read Harvey Fletcher.
 
;-)
 
~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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