[CAUT] RE : large and rapid humidity changes!

[Marcel Carey]

Paul,
 
I would suggest installing a piano life saving system WITH a long cover
that would go almost to the ground. Get the system with dual humidifier
and this should help enormously. I have a setup like this and since the
long covers and the dampp chaser, the pianos are stable. You have to
train users to remove and then replace the cover though.
 
Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

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De : caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] De la part de
Paul T Williams
Envoyé : 27 novembre 2006 12:28
À : caut at ptg.org
Objet : [CAUT] large and rapid humidity changes!



Hi list,   

We have a classroom/recital hall with a huge humidity problem.  Has
anyone else had this problem:   

The room seats about 200 and has a Steinway D from the late 70's and a
harpsichord.  The room can change by 30-40% or more in a day!  Over the
T-Day  weekend I put in one of those small humidistat from Pianotek and
it showed a range of 24-80%!!!  Not only are my tunings worthless for
recitals if I tune in the morning and the concert is in the evening (as
some days, that is the only time the room is available),  but it has got
to be wrecking havock on the instruments. It doesn't have a piano life
saver system in it, and I wonder how much it would help with such wild
swings.  I and all the faculty have complained about it (apparantly for
years prior to my getting here this year) and nothing gets done. 

Can I do more that just cover them and go ahead and put a DC system on
it?  They do have thick blanket style covers on them. 

Sweating to the oldies in Lincoln.... 

Paul 

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