<!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 6.00.2800.1400" 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>For the most part, tuning for more demanding musicians has been good, a= s Tom said. Although, I once had a violinist in the local symphony call m= e back after tuning her nondescript spinet to inform me that my "thirds" were = all off. When I checked them out they sounded fine to me and then she pointed ou= t that there were beats in them. She said that when she played double sto= ps on her violin the thirds had no beats. I tried to explain about the adjustme= nt to intervals, expanding and contracting, about equal temperament (I hadn't h= eard much about HT's, at the time, but I think that would have just complicated things.), and how you can adjust on the fly while playing a violin but a pia= no was stuck pretty much where it was. She was skeptical about my explanation a= nd I never heard from her again.     Oh well....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John Stroup</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>