{"id":2229,"date":"2010-05-11T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2010-05-11T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:06:10","slug":"frescoes-an-electroscope-and-piano-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/frescoes-an-electroscope-and-piano-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Frescoes, an electroscope and piano surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our piano tuner came today. He tunes our piano twice a year. That’s more often than I get an hour to myself. That’s more often than we eat tuna. Actually, I never serve tuna.<\/p>\n

(Back to the story) I barricaded myself in the school room to appear to be holding school, even though that’s impossible when a piano tuner is pounding on the piano keys and tweaking the long strings. It’s like living in Professor Higgins’s house hearing Eliza Doolittle’s vowels over and over.<\/p>\n

(Back to the story) Midway through the tuning, he stopped. He went to his car for additional tools. The next thing I knew, the piano was in pieces all over the room: keys, hammers, you name it… everywhere. He’s only taken the piano apart one other time and this is always disconcerting. Somewhere in my head I am entertaining questions like, “What if he forgets how to put it back together?” or, “What if he forgets a piece?”<\/p>\n

I decided we had to take drastic action. So as to not appear concerned, I decided to teach science in the kitchen, directly across from him so we could keep an eye on him and the poor dismembered piano. We built an electroscope and I tried to sound engaged and scientific. That’s my new word with Daniel, “Daniel,” I say, “You need to act engaged in what I’m asking you to do. No more slumping over.”<\/p>\n

Here is the electroscope (which I keep trying to type, “spectroscope”):<\/p>\n

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It’s actually very cool. Trust me.<\/p>\n

After the surgery on the piano (sigh… there were wood shavings on the floor!) he put the piano back together and I snuck a picture. It’s not every day that you see a grand piano taken apart. All is well. The keys are resting evenly in their piano bed.<\/p>\n

And though we didn’t have a stellar school day, we did build an electroscope, read about frescoes and Pompeii, and finished our work later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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