<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/27/2005 8:41:31 A.M. US Eastern Standard Time, jtanner@mozart.sc.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>It was not until sometime around 1920 that the <BR>US adopted this standard, agai= n, to the best of my recollection</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I used to have a tuning fork that said something to the effect of "A-44= 0 International standard 1917".  Since I don't have it any more and don't= know who the manufacturer was, I can only assume that some sort of consensus= among some countries was reached in 1917. Not particularly helpful, I know.</DIV> <DIV>John Stroup</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>