<html><body> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In some places here , Indiana, they used to have dial tones that were neither a or f#. If they were, they were very low on the scale.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Tvak@aol.com <BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>  <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/28/2006 11:54:11 A.M. Central Standard Time, tune4u@earthlink.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000000 size=4><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=4>> A land-line telephone. (The dial tone is an A)</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Actually, there are two tones, an A and an F#.  At least in Chicago, that's the case, and in fact, the F# seems a bit louder than the A.  So...maybe that might work down in Missouri...but I doubt it...you'd have to...uh...'show me'.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV> <DIV>Chicago</DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>