I have a client with a 1905 Stwy B that he fondly calls "Aunt B"... so that pretty much settles it for me. | || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason's cell 425 830 1561 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkanter | || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| 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? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090114/a265ebc8/attachment.html>
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