[CAUT] temperature and pitch

Sat Dec 12 09:07:40 MST 2009

Re: [CAUT] temperature and pitchYes, Jon, but overnight is plenty of time for RH changes to affect the wood. The pianos in a university are never climactically stable, but always coming from somewhere going somewhere else.
Jeff

Jon Page wrote:

  Temperature affects the wire long before RH can affect the wood.
  Cold constrict the wire causing the pitch to go sharp.

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