<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>I had bad luck with the accufork. Mine would fluctuate as much as 1ct i= n 24 hours. Of course I did not realize that until I got an accutuner. = I sent it back and they exchanged it for an older model (the kind without th= e calibration screw in the back) and that one was very stable but it must ha= ve had a short somewhere. The batteries would not last and one time it actua= lly started smoking. I opened it and saw that a resistor or whatever those t= hings are was melting. So I gave up and went back to my little fork, calibra= ted a body temperature. 30 seconds under my armpit and I know it's exac= tly at 440 and will stay there long enough for me to set pitch. </DIV> <DIV>Jean-Luc Matton RPT</DIV></BODY></HTML>