We have a Hamburg D=Franz, NY D=George... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 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. | || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| 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 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/dd7022cb/attachment-0001.html>
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