"Tuned" Pitch Drop

[Farrell]

That's what I had figured Ron. Someone broke in during the middle of the night. But dog-gone, I wish I had thought to look at the VCR. That would be a dead giveaway! I'll know next time.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: "Tuned" Pitch Drop


> 
> >BUT - five of these notes were wound bicords. AND BOTH STRINGS ON ALL FIVE 
> >NOTES WERE EQUALLY FLAT! I'm saying that the notes that were 25 to 60 
> >cents flat had perfectly tuned unisons. Obviously, one would think that 
> >pins letting loose would be an arbitrary occurrence - one here, one there. 
> >It's almost like someone that knew how to tune a unison but not an octave 
> >tried to "fix" the tuning. I asked her, and she said no one has gone near 
> >the piano with a tuning wrench (maybe I should have asked about vice 
> >grips!) since I was last there.
> >
> >Anyway, anyone have a reasonable explanation how this could happen? Boy, I 
> >don't know what the odds are against a random occurrence like this, but 
> >I'm sure they are not quite as good as winning the lottery.
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> 
> 
> Two more of these occurrences, and she's eligible for sainthood. Presuming 
> they were tuned at pitch in the first place (forgive me, since I don't 
> doubt that they were, but it IS a necessary condition), the odds of this 
> occurring naturally are somewhat less than those of the piano being hit by 
> one or more meteorites on each of two successive Thursdays. Not that it 
> isn't possible, but you could become very rich very quickly betting against 
> it - assuming someone rich and foolish enough to cover the bet. The block 
> isn't moving, because the paired strings on all these unisons are different 
> overall lengths, and would go out of tune differently. Same thing with 
> anything else moving spontaneously. There's no rational pattern, and nature 
> is above all rational. That leaves people, who often aren't. Someone broke 
> into her house while she was gone and put them there. Check the VCR clock, 
> and see if they changed that too.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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