<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/5/05 8:57:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, dporritt@mail.smu.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Times New Roman" color=#= 000000 size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:= 12pt">That puzzles me.  2:1 is to me a very narrow setting although I have a fri= end that uses that all the time.  I’m suspicious of the IH readin= gs.  Many <st1:place w:st="on">Baldwin</st1:place> spinets and even worse, th= e consoles, have some really weird readings around C5.  That can mess u= p the calculations higher up.  How stretched was say, C7 & C8 on th= at tuning?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Dave,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>C8 was probably 25 cents sharp to my ear.  The beats were coming f= ast and furious.  It was unpleasant sounding. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In order to appease a potentially angry client this morning, I called back prepared to offer a free touch-up to the upper end of the pia= no in conjunction with them paying for grommet replacement.  The CEO answe= red, so I felt obliged to ask how his wife liked the tuning.  "She was thrilled...it sounded better to her right away than the last time!"  Go= figure.  Just proves we all hear things differently...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>