Wives tales ...

[Ron Nossaman]

> 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