<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Julia,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am a retired United States Navy Chief Musician and in twenty years of active duty I never heard of any such animal as "military pitch" or "military temprament", etc. At least not in the frame of reference of United States military service. And, my time in including some years of serving with military musicians from the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps as well as Navy. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It's a clever angle or gimmick but it has no merit.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Robin Blankenship</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=KeyKat88@aol.com href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:10 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Miltary pitch and other "Broadwood" expert</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>     I think the lady was sold a "bull of goods" by her rebuilder or whatever he was. I think military pitch was part of that bull, sort of implying that <EM>this</EM> tuning wont go out of tune so fast,  as if it was a "heavy duty", official or "industrial strength" tuning or something. Then again,  perhaps Glenn Miller had a preferred temperament put on his orchestra's piano and so it was nicknamned military pitch.. sort of like a local thing. .That would be the only logical guess I can come up with about "military pitch".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>     I think Diane is right. I think this customer may make trouble, especially if she's been taken by the "Broadwood expert";  very good advice and red flag stuff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading. PA</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>      </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>