Dampp-Chaser string

[David ilvedson]

Actually I didn't write that.  I wrote a reply to it!

David Ilvedson



> David ilvedson wrote:
> > 
> > > > Last week I tuned a Sohmer studio and the piano was a quarter step flat.
> > > the pianist said she was having it tuned regularly.  At first  I thought it
> > > was wild fluctuations in temperature, but I discovered a dammp-chaser
> > > humidifier with the heat bar, but no humidifier.
> 
> Yesterday, I went to tune a Steinway upright that had been moved from a
> different climate (Fresno, CA) to here 7 months ago.  It was a quarter
> step sharp.  I checked, and sure enough, it was equiped with a
> Dampp-Chaser rod and humidistat which had not been plugged in since the
> move.  It may also have had a humidifier tank, but if so it was removed
> for the move and never put back.  In any case it would have been
> superfluous here (Berkeley, CA) because the humidity never gets low
> enough to activate it.
> 
> I didn't tune the piano.  I told them to plug it in and that I would
> return in a couple of weeks.  They were ten minutes away and I needed
> time to do my taxes anyway.
> 
> Paul S. Larudee, RPT
> Richmond, CA
> 


David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@jps.net