Thanks for your ideas on the humidity problem. I think for everyone's sake a building system would be best - for health, stringed instruments and pianos. Unfortunately, our chair thinks even if it's a possibility, it would take forever for them to come through with it. The latest is, he wants a proposal from me on the cost to install systems on all our grands! Well, at least its progress. I probably won't recommend systems for the performance pianos since the are on and off the stage like a ping pong ball. I'm still wondering about systems in pianos that are moved a lot - both for the unplugging issue and the danger of water sloshing out of the bucket - especially in a vertical. Anyone have this happen? Jeff Stickney, RPT University of Montana jpage@selway.umt.edu -----Original Message----- From: Richard Brekne [mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:23 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: Humidity Problems Whoa.... thats some low humidity readings for sure. I imagine more then one person is icthing like crasy from dried out skin. Aside from the obvious health detriments to this low a humidity level, its a guarentee of a dead piano within a few seasons. Falseness is most likely due to loose bridge pins I would think. Tapping isnt going to help a lot, certainly not in the long run. Probably the damage is more permanant and you will have to result to some kind of epoxy or CA treatment, or some more complete repair. The only real solution to this is to avoid this over dry climate to begin with. Get them Grizzlys to pump a bit of cash into a climate control system... or fix the existing one if there is one. Good luck. RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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