[pianotech] What gender is a piano?

[Israel Stein]

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:09:49 -0800 "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:
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> We have a Hamburg D=Franz, NY D=George...
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> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA 94044
Not so fast..  Here at SFSU our three stage D's are Fritz (Hamburg), 
Bruce (NY) and Tiffany (NY). Where do you think baby grands come 
from???  ;-)

Israel Stein

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> From: "Jason Kanter"  
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Received: 1/14/2009 5:38:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] What gender is a piano?
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> 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 
> <mailto:wippen at embarqmail.com>> wrote:
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>     THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE/POEMS, ETC IN THE 1800s
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>         ----- Original Message -----
>         *From:* David Boyce <mailto:David at piano.plus.com>
>         *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>
>         *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:13 PM
>         *Subject:* [pianotech] What gender is a piano?
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>         A new customer tonight posed a question I'd not thought of
>         before.  Do pianos have gender?
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>         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.
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>         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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