Go figur. You just have to smile and assure.  Education sometimes works, but usually, they "know it all" Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>"Porritt, David" <dporritt@mail.smu.edu> Sent by: caut-bounces@ptg.org 07/25/2008 05:06 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>"College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [CAUT] Barbie tuner</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> There’s always one!   dp     David M. Porritt, RPT <a href=mailto:dporritt@smu.edu>dporritt@smu.edu</a>   From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@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.