Temperature Change affecting pitch

[Don]

Hi Larry,

Have you taken empircal readings of RH in a home with AC? I have and
believe me they *are* lower where I live. 

At 09:15 AM 3/30/00 -0700, you wrote:
>" You are sitting in your house and get to feeling to  warm so you turn
>on the airconditioner which takes the outside air as it is...  humdity
>and all and cools it down while pumping it around inside your house."
>
>Dear List, I disagree,
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>Air Conditioners do NOT remove moisture from the air.
>
>Pray tell, unless you have an air handler system as is used in large
>structures to keep the air fresh, HOW are you getting that air into your
>house to cool.  Most air conditioners I know just cool and recirculate
>the air already in the structure.  Absolute Humidity remains the same,
>relative humidity rises.  That's why in Phoenix (and I presume elsewhere)
>air conditioned air is good for pianos.
>
>Larry Messerly, RPT
>Prescott/Phoenix
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
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