Customer Ratio/how about the customer's view on this

[Larry J Messerly]

I do strongly suggest to all clients to have a humidity control system
installed.

When I first began offering these, I only suggested them to clients that
I thought would be more likely to afford them.  Then I realized that I
was doing a dis-service to my spinet, old console and upright owning
clients.  I realized that this was probably the only piano that they
would ever own, and why was I not suggesting something to them that would
improve tuning stability and the life of the instrument.  

Now everyone gets information on humidity control systems.

BTW I just installed my first G8PS-50-SHB-B in a Petrof II.  It is in a
church and we have left a note to unplug the system before services and
to plug it in afterwards.  I have sent a suggestion to Dampp-Chaser to
have a two level warning system with the buzzer.  I would like to see the
lights come on at one level of water in the reservoir and the buzzer at a
lower level.   That way the church would not have to unplug the system to
avoid a buzzer sounding during services.  I have also thought about
putting this system on a timer set to be off only during services, but
figured with power outages that this would not work.

Larry

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:16:08 -0600 Don <drose@dlcwest.com> writes:
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Then do what is best for your client and install a humidity control 
> system.
> Particularly on uprights pitch corrections of less than 1.8 cents 
> per year
> on *any* note are sometimes possible.
> 
> At 12:27 PM 06/18/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >Check out Steinway's web site, care of the piano.  Under tuning it 
> states
> >that the piano should be tuned AT LEAST! 3-4 times a year.  What's 
> better
> >for my client IS better for my wallet.
> >
> >Larry Messerly, RPT
> >Prescott/Phoenix, AZ
> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
> 
> Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
> 
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