Wives tales ...

[Mike Spalding]

LOL!  Thank you Ron.  Attitude adjustment complete.

Mike

Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>> I think that we should all do our best to keep this myth going, 
>> otherwise we'll never get called, because they've never moved it! 
>> Actually we should have to swear an oath, or make it part of the PTG 
>> pledge, or something.......
>>  
>>
>> Scott Jackson
>
> The outside wall thing is real, but it's more a matter of keeping the 
> piano on the right side of the wall. There has also been some 
> speculation on the possibility that we don't actually tune pianos, but 
> only the space they occupy, so moving them doesn't throw them out of 
> tune so much as dislocating them from the tuning, which would 
> theoretically remain in the space in which it was installed. 
> Unfortunately, no one seems to have tried moving the piano back to the 
> spot in which it was last tuned to see if the spacial tuning 
> reconnected with the piano - a tragically missed educational 
> opportunity. This also raises the question of whether the tuning can 
> be non-disruptively spatially relocated to correspond with the piano's 
> new location without having to laboriously reinstall another tuning, 
> thereby wasting and duplicating the disconnected original. How 
> critical might the alignment be for tuning relocation? The fact that 
> pianos that haven't been moved tend to go out of tune would indicate 
> that the spacial tuning is of an essentially ethereal nature, and 
> prone to spontaneous evaporation over time and as a result of climatic 
> variations, which further complicates the issue since there would seem 
> to be a statute of limitations of sorts on tuning relocation. But then 
> there is also considerable mystery concerning the potential longevity 
> of "free range" tunings that are unattached to pianos, as well as 
> their potential for autonomous mobility. The number of reports of 
> pianos sounding suddenly better this week than they did for the last 
> two seems to be indicative of the potential for at least limited free 
> movement of lingering disenfranchised tunings past, and some capacity 
> for mutual self alignment with encountered pianos. There might well be 
> an extraordinary number of long lived orphaned tunings out there for 
> the harvesting.
>
> Should the server ever come back on line... (Go Andy!)
>
> Ron N
>