This sounded a lot like one of those bogus emails purporting to clarify the mysterious origin of every expression known to the language, so I thought I'd see what I could find. Initially skimming the following article, I didn't immediately see the answer I was looking for, but I did see the heading "Thumb Used For Regulation" (which pretty well describes how I sometimes feel when trying to DO a regulation on a piano, but I digress...) http://bit.ly/2YY76u AnOn WeGo On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:37 PM, <PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com> wrote: <snip> > And for what it's worth, "rule of thumb" comes from old English law (some > still on the books) that states that you can't beat your wife with anything > thicker than your thumb. > </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091207/19e81f97/attachment.htm>
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