Definitely better then nothing at all. You will be the judge as to how effective it is. You can get hygrometers that record highs and lows and you can see after a few days/week how well the room stabilizes. The tuning stability will make it audibly measurable too and this is what will indicate if the board and glue joints are enjoying better protection. With a full DC system, undercover and stringcover I can tune a piano that is played daily and have it stay in great tune for six months at a time despite changing weather. For me that is worth it. Andrew Anderson On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Dr. Henry Nicolaides wrote: > Hi list, > Since the subject is being discussed...is there a preference? I > have small grands in practice rooms, two piano studios (larger > rooms), and several pianos in choral and orchestra rooms. Given the > large size of the choral and orchestra rooms, systems in the pianos > are the only viable option. However, in the smaller studio and > practice room does a humidifer make sense. Given the cost > difference and my bbudget or lack thereof, I might get a "good" > humidifer for 69-79 dollars easier than the dampp chaser system. > Granted in the Spring the dehumidifer rod would be needed. And, for > the studios where there are two pianos the cost differential makes > more sense. It is now only the beginning of the heating season and > the RH today in the studio rooms borders 30%. > > The pianos have not had the advantage of humidification over the > years. We have three Baldwin R's that were purchased in 1996. All > have little to no bearing with visible splits at the bridge pins. > Two have one or two cracks in the soundboard. I have a client that > had no bearing in her older Baldwin M. Her complaint was the two > octaves above the middle c octave were "dead". Two months of room > humidification set at RH of 50% restored enough bearing to liven > those octaves to her satisfaction. > > Any comments? > > FYI, I am the new piano technician at Southern Illinois University > in Carbondale. I look forward to meeting you one the web and > perhaps next Summer at convention. > > email: henryn at siu.edu > > Henry Nicolaides > School of Music > Southern Illinois University > Carbondale, IL 62901 > > > > Get 5 GB of storage with Windows Live Hotmail. Sign up today. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081112/35823bac/attachment.html>
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