[pianotech] What gender is a piano?

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<RE: [pianotech] What gender is a piano?>
  
I"m not sure, but at least on a piano I can find the "G"-spot nevery time! 

Terry Peterson
Accurate Piano Service
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:07:48 -0800
> From: custos3 at comcast.net
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: [pianotech] What gender is a piano?
> 
> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:09:49 -0800 "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > We have a Hamburg D=Franz, NY D=George...
> >  
> > 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
> 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Original message
> > From: "Jason Kanter"  
> > To: pianotech at ptg.org
> > Received: 1/14/2009 5:38:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] What gender is a piano?
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >     THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE/POEMS, ETC IN THE 1800s
> >      
> >
> >         ----- 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?
> >
> >         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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