More music, and more RVs

What could be better than more music? and more RVs? two of my favorite topics. 🙂

While playing my piano the other day, I began to wonder who named the keys? a, b, c, d, e, etc, and who decided which ones were which? The usual octave on a piano (for the usual major chord) runs from C to C … why not from A to A? If you have a piano or keyboard and play the white keys A to A, that doesn’t sound right! But if you play C to C with just the white keys, that sounds lovely. So why didn’t they start that with the letter A? Why C?

And then, even more than that … what’s with the do re mi fa so la ti do thing and who invented that? And how does that match up with those alphabet key letters? In fact “do” (or doe) matches up with the piano white key C, not A. So why is that system off too? At least the do re mi thing STARTS on the right note … it starts on C (which of course should have been named A) … hrmph.

You can search on google for “history of names of notes”, but I just did that, just now, and here’s one really good website … https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/musical-notes-names. And here’s a link to Wikipedia’s version … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation.

And of course, there’s the song about the notes do and re and mi, “Doe, a deer, a female deer …. ray, a drop of golden sun …. me, a name I call myself” … etc. Here’s a link to that song from the musical “The Sound of Music”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnBMAEA3AM.

Ah, yes, music is wonderful, and these questions are fun to research.

But what about RV’s? They are really wonderful too! And I especially love molded fiberglass trailers. There are trailers with straight sides that are made of fiberglass, the walls are made of fiberglass, but they are not “molded” … they do not have round corners and edges. Check out these two fiberglass trailers below.

 

Both trailers are light weight, lighter than steel or aluminum walled trailers. But the fiberglass molded RVs don’t have square corners at the top of the roof or on the front edges of the walls where the non-molded fiberglass trailers DO have those sharp square corners and so all of those OTHER trailers with square corners DO leak water into the interior of the walls and that results in mold/mildew inside those square-built RVs, all of them. The first trailer I owned was a “square” trailer with metal walls and roof. I owned it just one year. When I took it to an RV maintenance/repair shop for a checkup, they told me they had never opened up a wall in any of the hundreds of thousands of “square” trailers/RVs they’ve seen where there was NOT mold and mildew inside. But they said the round-cornered fiberglass trailers don’t have that problem. Ok, I said to myself, I think I’ll start looking at round-cornered fiberglass trailers. And that’s when I found Escape Trailer Industries (ETI) in Canada. I bought a customized trailer from them and the rest, they say, is history. That was eight years ago, and I still LOVE my little trailer, Towhee the Trailer.

If you’re interested in fiberglass trailers, whether for your own purchase/use, or just to look at them for fun, here’s a good website to check out … https://traveltrailerpro.com/fiberglass-travel-trailer-brands/. You know my favorite! Escape!

When I’m traveling with my big white truck and my Towhee the Trailer (built by Escape Trailer Industries in Canada), I like sunny weather. But if it rains, and it does rain here in the Pacific Northwest, I know that my molded fiberglass trailer has not one bit of mold or mildew inside those walls. So even when it does rain when I’m out camping, the rain doesn’t bother me … it’s music to my ears.

May life bring you beautiful music and happy travels.