Has anyone ever done any investigations involving the tonal impact these units might have on a stage piano? It seems to me that you would have to lose a certain amount of power since sound is coming off the bottom of the soundboard as well as the top. I know these units have great value in studio and home situations, but I just can't imagine it not affecting the piano's tone and power. And by the way, just as a reminder about how this thread began, I haven't heard from anyone about gluing bridge pins on a concert instrument...it seems like a great idea to be able to stabilize the wood around these pins. I guess I'll just have to go up into a practice room and find out for myself... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eric Wolfley Head Piano Technician Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Don [mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:25 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: humidity control in concert pianos Hi Jeff, I've changed the thread. That's very simple to arrange. Take a rechargeable emergency flashlight, replace the bulb with a buzzer and splice it into the power cord of the DC unit. When the unit is unplugged it will buzz for about 20 minutes. Trust me--they will plug it in! I'd really appreciate the DC people including this as an optional "add on". A refinement to this would be to use one of the many uninteruptible power supplies that are used on computers--I do think this is overkill--but I'd do it in a flash if I could purchase a unit where the "beep" could be turned off for concerts--there would then be no cords needed during a performance. The local University concert venue's here have DC units on the two pianos used for that purpose. At 10:55 AM 10/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >If he's like us, there is no way to expect to keep one plugged in on a >concert instrument. >Jeff > >On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Don wrote: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> Why no hope of a DC system with bottom cover? >> >> At 10:12 AM 10/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >>> to dry out it reverts a devilish false beat capo noise monster. >> Unfortunately, most of the concerts are during the dry months and >> there is >> no hope of any climate control. >>> Eric Wolfley >> >> Regards, >> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. >> >> mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca >> http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ >> >> 3004 Grant Rd. >> REGINA, SK >> S4S 5G7 >> 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner >> _______________________________________________ >> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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