<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">They just do everything weird in Chicago. Ha. A and F#, huh? Minor third, major sixth? Opening notes of Dvorak's 9th?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">After I sent that post,, out of curiosity, I put the phone up to the old ETD and found it was slightly more accurate at A3 than A4 so maybe just a tad flat ... but pretty darned close!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Tvak@aol.com href="mailto:Tvak@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 02/28/2006 7:30:53 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: beginner seeking advice</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><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></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>