humidity drops, pitch goes up?!

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Church environments are so brutal ... I'm not sure the "normal" rules apply
... especially these little country churches where they only use normal
(comfortable) A/C settings for maybe 5-10 hours per week!

A semi-lucid thought from Alan Barnard, Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Koval" <drwoodwind@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: humidity drops, pitch goes up?!


> New one for me:
>
> Here in the midwest, it's common to see all the pianos tuned over the
summer
> needing pitch raises now, as the heat has been on for awhile and the
> humidity has dropped.
>
> Petrof 7' in a church, I'm reasonably sure that I'm the last one that
tuned
> it on 6/8, where the humidity was around 45%.  Just went there for the
xmas
> tuning, humidity was under 30%, but the piano was 10 cents sharp........
> kinda chilly in there, around 64 degrees - anyone out there care to hazard
a
> guess?  No D/C system installed.
>
> Beats me
>
> Ron Koval
>
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