Hot and Heavy [ON Topic]

[jolly roger]

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Hi Z!,
         Anything that keeps as much sun light off the piano, as possible has
to be helpful.
Roger

  At 11:25 AM 8/20/01 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> Would it help at all if the outermost layer was a highly reflective
material,
> such as mylar?  I'm thinking primarily of those times when the piano is left
> sitting out in full sunlight .......
>  
> Z! Reinhardt  RPT
> Ann Arbor  MI
> <mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>> From: <mailto:baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>jolly roger  
>> To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org  
>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:31 PM 
>> Subject: Re: Hot and Heavy [ON Topic]
>>
>> Hi Z!, 
>>          Both of our concert grands have to the floor fitted tarps, that
are
>> heavily quilted,  it helps quite a bit.  But there is no real way to over
>> come those concerts in the park, stability type things.   Minimizing is the
>> best you can hope for.  Besides the heavy tarp, laying two moving blankets
>> on the strings inside the piano seems to help.  But I may be fooling myself
>> on that one. 
>> Insulate and protect, in the best way possible. 
>> Regards Roger.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 07:07 PM 8/19/01 -0400, you wrote: 
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone!
>>>
>>> How hot can a piano get before you run into more serious problems than
>>> changes in the tuning?  What are some of the problems people have observed
>>> after a piano got hot?
>>>
>>> Over the summer I tuned at a couple of festivals on what were otherwise
>>> beautiful summer days here in Detroit but must have been nightmares for
the
>>> pianos.  As usual, I was asked to tune first thing in the morning despite
>>> the stage manager's full knowledge that the tuning will be seriously
>>> "altered" by the time the featured artist was going to play.  Over the
>>> course of all the set changes, the pianos were often relegated to some
>>> out-of-the-way corner of the stage where they sat out in full sunlight,
>>> often wearing black naugahyde covers.  Those pianos were probably hot
>>> enough to roast a fat steak by the time I came back to them to "touch them
>>> up" just before the performances.  (The stage managers have been told
>>> repeatedly not to leave the pianos out in full sunlight for any length of
>>> time ....)
>>>
>>> Since then, those pianos have been doing one-night stands all over metro
>>> Detroit and I haven't crossed paths with any of them yet since their
>>> sunbathing sessions.  Nor have I heard any comments from the other
>>> technicians who have serviced them since then.  Meanwhile I came to yet
>>> another concert rental recently which had numerous loose lead weights in
>>> the damper system, and I'm wondering if that one also got a good "sunburn"
>>> at some point over the summer.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance --
>>>
>>> Z! Reinhardt  RPT 
>>> Ann Arbor  MI 
>>> <mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net
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