Talk:Artie's Office/@comment-5782071-20160914000351/@comment-24588058-20170505051242

. . . . Didn't you start that conversation about his keyboard being an artifact? Or are you referring to the keyboard being his artifact? I don't think the keyboard is his; it definitely came before. What I meant is, sometimes the person who it was collected from gets their name attached to the artifact, even if it isn't theirs, if they are famous enough. My one example of that that I can think of off the top of my head is Alfred Hitchcock's Showerhead. And yes, I know that we renamed it to it's correct title here (Showerhead from the movie Pyscho), but it still shows my point. In all likelihood, Hitchcock never handled the prop directly, yet his name was attributed to it. There's probably a couple more examples that I don't know about, but that is all I was referring to.

This artifact idea is in your field. I agree with you that Artie is probably a good compositionist on his own, and that is likely not the artifact's effect. If it calmed artifacts down, as Sarah suggested, though, then why keep it in his office? Why not keep it on the floor where it could be used? I think the true effects, if you decide to make it an artifact, are much more simple. And perhaps he has to keep it in the office because it requires daily or weekly playing, which is easier to do in the office than on the floor.