operknockity

[Ron Nossaman]

>Hi all
>
>Since we are on the subject of self tuning pianos, does any one remember 
>Operknockity (sp)?  For those that don't, this was some super treated 
>piano wire that had, I believe, been super frozen to minus something 
>colder than St Paul in winter.  This treatment was supposed to condition 
>the wire so that it only needed tuning once.  In fact, their moto was 
>"Operknockity only tunes once".  It received a lot of hype from the media 
>and was going to replace the need for tuning.  Then, it was gone.  Any one 
>ever tune the special wire?  Of  course, I was just in diapers at the time 
>and hardly remember it.  ;-)
>
>Ned Swift


Falconi, I think, was playing with that idea. Trouble is, it's not 
stretching wire that makes pianos go out of tune. A fix of something that 
wasn't broke.

Ron N