Greetings, My overall impression is that this story is the result of a reporter looking for a novelty storyline and a tech that is stretching the envelope. Obviously, thumping a freshly frozen and retreived carcass of a piano isn't going to produce much basis for serious anything. If it does, I'll invest the time to find out more, then, yet..?? On a common thread, Bill Garlick once related that an upright in the lobby of a Canadian hotel would certainly have been exposed to 30 below for the winter and suffered no apparent damage, and when they returned to the hotel in the spring and began opening it up, it was amazingly close to in tune. I don't think freezing temps would be anywhere near as important a consideration as the condensation and thermal shock that would happen when the carcass's change back to normal temperature was as sudden as walking out the door, rather than a month or two cycling back from Artic conditions in a closed building. Regards, Ed Foote RPT
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