<HTML>In a message dated 8/28/02 11:20:46 AM Central Daylight Time, dkvander@joplin.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In past years I have attempted to tune pianos in the colleges I tune for to A-440 each tuning.  This has caused me extra work (usually unpaid), and mental stress. This year I have floated pitch on every piano I have tuned, and I feel so much happier!  No one has complained about the pianos being at A-442 or A-443, and the pianos are behaving better.  When the temperature is 72 Fahrenheit, and the relative humidity is 83% indoors in the music building, floating pitch is the only way to go. Thanks to Kent Swafford, I have finally seen the light! David Vanderhoofven </BLOCKQUOTE> With all due respect to Kent, I wholeheartedly disagree with floating pitch. Our job, regardless of how much time and effort it takes, is to tune pianos to the correct pitch, especially in a college situation, where pianos are used by many different people, and are most likely used to accompany other instruments. I could maybe see floating the pitch on a piano that is used only in a home, where no other instruments are being played. But not in a college setting. I'm sorry, David, that you think you have found a new light. But it's not a light I want to see. Wim </HTML>