Good luck with a difficult education project Diane. Download the CAUT Guidelines and learn to use them. That will be your best weapon. The folks that you are working for need to be lead in to the 21st century, the light of day and stop sticking their heads in the sand. Reality bites. There just aren't enough cliches. Climate control (comlete systems) and more frequent maintenance, sorry there are no substitutes or magic bullets. Chris Solliday rpt Lehigh University Lafayette College East Stroudsburg University Blair Academy and several public school districts ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Hofstetter To: College and University Technicians Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:51 AM Subject: [CAUT] How long to stabilize?? I know many of you have written in the past about the problems with tuning stability in brand new loaner pianos from manufacturers. Fortunately the college where I am tuning has purchased these pianos, so they won't disappear just when we get them settled in. However, my question is this; in a practice room in a small college, how long, or how many tunings do you think it will take for the school's new Kawai UST-9's to stabilize in tuning? The pianos were delivered directly to the college from the warehouse and uncrated there. Before that they spent two days in the truck. It was snowing outside. They have Dampp Chaser heating rods and HD humidistats installed, but my data logger, which was in their new Boesendorfer between December 4 and February 4, showed nothing but too dry. Every time I have tuned in the practice rooms, my humidity gauge reads 36-38% RH. I do expect the humidity to go up to around 60% in the spring. Each piano has received one pitch adjustment--usually pitch raises, but two of them took lowering--and one tuning since the beginning of February when they were delivered. Already I want to tune a couple of them again, but this is not in the budget or mindset of either the store that sent me out or the college who now owns the pianos. They all think the tunings should be stable already. Experienced opinions gratefully received! Diane Hofstetter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090218/fd22fd6e/attachment.html>
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