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Re: Loretto Heights College/Denver-hauntings

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:35:33 -0700 (PDT), rmaddux6@gmail.com wrote:

>I lived there for two years and the ghost of the nun played the piano on the fourth floor of pan hall. It was some of the most amazingly beautiful piano playing I have ever heard ... Which is funny because the piano was out of tune and broken, but when she played it sounded perfect.

Interesting, it suggests residual since the piano
was in good working order when she used to play it.
Tuning pianos is only easy if you learned to do it
by ear. The middle, C4 octave can be tuned using a
high-precision digital tuner (i.e., center strings
only, tuning unisons by ear), but all other strings
only sound good to the ear after they were tuned by
ear. Having a good quality tuning hammer is a must,
and slightly detuning whatever string you are tuning
before tuning it up to pitch ensures that the tuning
hammer is in fact locked on the pin that you expect
it to be so that you don't overstretch a string lest
you break it, but also because it helps to "set the
pin" as you repeatedly strike the key with authority
while relaxing the tuning hammer. It's an acquired
skill, but like anything with enough practice, you
can get pretty good at it. A really well-tuned piano
sounds "crunchy", so to speak, and rings like that
while playing sustained octaves on every tone from
top to bottom, and bottom to top, unisons and all.

I've lived in the Denver area since 1970, and I've
been to several haunted locations, including an old
mansion (whose name was famous but I don't remember)
for a wedding reception, and that place was straight
up spooky! It was during the summer and there was a
big party out in the large garden area, statuary and
wrought iron work all over the place. That estate was
very definitely haunted and in a most disquieting way.
I'm glad that I live in a nearly un-haunted old cabin.

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Loretto Heights College/Denver-hauntings rmaddux6@gmail.com - 2015-07-13 14:35 -0700
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