This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Clyde, Yes.=20 Piano in Darwin, sun on the wall, outside temp is about 32 degrees C but = direct sun on the wall is more like 45 Degrees C. Tuning pins on a = repinned piano are now loose, 5 ribs totally off the soundboard, action = totally loose etc. All within 3 months of putting it there. The owner = said its too hot to sit there so we thought because the piano has an = iron frame it would be OK. Piano in Alice Springs, temp drops to -4 C, humidity at 6 degrees C is = 5%, timber dried out, loose ribs, cracked soundboard, loose pins, glue = (animal type) given away and tuning plank has pulled forward. Piano left in a container in sun for 4 weeks. Enough. Regards Tony Caught Darwin Australia caute@bigpond.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Clyde Hollinger=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:48 PM Subject: Re: piano at outside wall Friends,=20 This request brings another question to my mind. Has any one of us = actually seen a piano damaged, or experienced tuning instability, solely = because it was placed by an outside wall, above ground level? Or is = this a situation where common sense would say it is inadvisable but = there is no proof?=20 Regardless of answers I receive, I will still alert my clients to the = potential problems of putting a piano there in an uninsulated house.=20 I did find mold or mildew inside an old upright against an outside = wall in a church basement, but I've found the same thing in a piano = located on an inside wall on the main floor of an occupied house. In = both cases the humidity level was obviously too high somewhere along the = line.=20 Regards,=20 Clyde Hollinger, RPT=20 Lititz, PA, USA=20 carpthos wrote:=20 Dear list, can you give some suggestions for a customer`s = following inquiry: - in a 20 year old home she needs to put = her piano on an outside wall (she doesn`t know if the home has inside = and outside moisture barrier but says it has insulation). - her = question is: - is there some type of buffer that can located between = the piano and the outside wall to compensate for the piano having to be = placed there? e.g.- plywood = - cloth = = - plastic ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c0/8f/6e/ed/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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