<HTML>In a message dated 3/16/02 9:00:13 AM Central Standard Time, rrg@unlv.edu (Robert Goodale) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I already have a "hand held piano tuning device". </BLOCKQUOTE> I'm glad you could see right through the obvious on this, Rob.  There was recently a lot of discussion of how fast someone could tune a piano.  Only those with many years of experience, usually 20 or more ever claim to be able to finish tuning a piano in 30 minutes.  While I can get through one in that amount of time under ideal circumstances when I really have to, I would never claim that it is the best that it can be as this phony promotion claims.  I'd really like to see a manufacturer's rep try to pick someone out of the crowd at a trade show, a piano owner, not a technician and see what the results are in 30 minutes. Add to that, I get the idea from what Kent Swafford said, whoever came up with this idea got a list of theoretical frequencies from a high school science book and that's what the victim will be trying to tune the piano to.  When they see that sales of these are lagging, they should offer a free copy of Isacoff's book from among the stacks of unsold copies. For more on ridiculous new ideas and trends, see my next post. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>