>Good question indeed Gordon. Especially on a vertical piano with a DC >dehumidifier installed on a humidistat. I tuned a fairly new Yamaha studio >in a church recently with a DC dehumidifier. The pitch seemed to wander >around quite a bit (4 cents or so) during a 5-cent pitch raise and a >tuning. As soon as you open the piano up, everything is going to change. >So you ask the church keeper to have the A/C set to their service >temperature when the piano is played closed, and you need to open it to >tune it. What is a tech to do??? > >Any thoughts or observations on this apparent problem? > >Terry Farrell Well, after trimming the 6K of previous posts from the reply, a tech will probably eventually come to the conclusion that they can't have everything the way they want it (most especially in a church or school), and will play it where it lies. You does what you can, then you moves on. Ron N
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