There was a documentary on PBS a while back called "Mr. Tornado" and I had remembered seeing it and wanting to investigate it further. It came up on a streaming site under "leaving soon" and I wanted to watch it while I still could for free. That's when I remembered my theory...
Ted Fujita in 1971 created the Fujita Scale to describe tornado intensity.
"...an F5 was the most powerful tornado with winds up to 318 miles per hour. Evidence of an F5 included strong frame houses ripped from their foundations, debarked trees and cars flying through the air."
Fujita said, "With an F5, incredible phenomena can occur. Anything beyond an F5 would be inconceivable"
Obviously Fujita was describing Bill Monroe playing an F5 mandolin.
But what if it was the other way around?
The key understanding of the connection comes when you convert the units from mph to kph - the wind speeds for an F5 would be 419-512 kph - which of course includes 440.
Clearly this is related to the Pythagorean theorem of Bluegrass, universal harmonics and time travel.
Connect all the dots and Lloyd Loar was familiar with the Fujita scale and wanted to accurately describe what he hoped to obtain from his redesigned mandolin, and wanted to let this speak through to future generations. The only way he could know this is if he traveled back in time from the future, and was using the most descriptive concepts he knew to brand Gibson mandolins.
I know, as of this post I am 52 days late...
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