Gentlemen please! Rather than scoffing at this poor customers obvious lack of connective nervous tissue, why don't you look at this as a new opportunity to install a large bank of rare earth magnets and quartz crystals (positive energy) on the inner rim of her piano facing the keyboard? Then your customer does not have to be concerned with north at all! Good Luck Mark Perry From: rob at mccallpiano.com Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:36:55 -0700 To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] SAY WHAT !!!! There's one major flaw with your clients theory. There is no magnetic pull from the North Pole. The north pole and the magnetic north pole are in two different locations! The magnetic north pole is currently at about 83 deg latitude, near Ellesmere Island in Canada. It is currently drifting NW. The difference between the two poles is magnetic variation. In NY, the north pole is 15 deg W of the geographic north pole. In LA, it's 14 deg E, Seattle 22 E, and if you're Wim, it's at 11 deg E. :-) As luck would have it, in Indiana, the variation ranges from 1 deg E to 3 deg W so the two pole are pretty closely aligned. Next time, ask them which pole they want the piano to face - true north (Santa) or magnetic north (NE Canada)... :-) Regards, Rob McCall Murrieta, CA On Oct 04, 2009, at 07:08 , Brian Doepke wrote: Has anyone else had a client say to them that they will only play a piano if they, and the piano, are facing north because of the positive effect that the North Pole’s magnetic pull has on the music. I did last week and I thought…..SAY WHAT!!!! Would this be true in the southern hemisphere…where you face south? Brian P. Doepke, RPT President-PTG Indiana Chapter A.A.A. Piano Works, LLC Piano Tuning + Service www.aaapianoworks.com _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091006/7ed40a53/attachment-0001.htm>
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