[pianotech] What gender is a piano?

[Jason Kanter]

I have a client with a 1905 Stwy B that he fondly calls "Aunt B"... so that
pretty much settles it for me.
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:39 PM, james dally <wippen at embarqmail.com> wrote:

>  THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE/POEMS, ETC IN THE 1800s
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:13 PM
> *Subject:* [pianotech] What gender is a piano?
>
> A new customer tonight posed a question I'd not thought of before.  Do
> pianos have gender?
>
> Ships are female. Female gender identity is also sometimes ascribed to
> other things - cars, etc.  This lady was inclined to view her c1900
> straight-strung (though underdamped) upright as female. I'd never considered
> this before.
>
> But I did say to her that I've long maintained that 1) a piano 2) an open
> coal fire and 3) a grandfather clock, are all quasi-living things in a home.
> And if they have quasi-life, ought they not to have quasi-gender? I suppose
> the grandfather clock would have to be male.  I wondered afterwards, had the
> piano been a new one, would she have ascribed gender to it, and if so,
> which?
>
>
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