Dampp Chaser

[Farrell]

I routinely observe RH levels up to 75% in Florida homes in the summer with the AC on. In the winter I commonly see RH down to 35%. Still, you are right that an air conditioned Florida home commonly has significantly less extreme RH levels than say the average home in Duluth. However, if you have a nice piano that you care about in a Florida home and you prefer to have it in tune rather than out of tune, IMHO, you NEED good climate control. I have a DC on my piano at home and I find it energized often.

On the other hand, I do not even talk to owners of 1952 Gulbranson spinets about climate control - unless they bring it up first - and then I only recommend it if they find they are having tuning stability problems - which of course they never do - think about it - does an in-tune Gulby sound a whole lot different that an out-of-tune Gulby? You get my drift.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Bondi" <tito@philbondi.com>
To: <cedel@supernet.com>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: Dampp Chaser


> > Has anyone given the Dampp-Chaser brochure to every piano owner they
> serve?
> 
> Clyde, I use to. What happened was I was pointed to pianos that had been in
> this environment for +/-20 years and had no DC installed and looked and
> sounded just fine.
> 
> What I WAS doing was trying to sell Florida as an 'unstable and hostile'
> environment for pianos, when in fact, it's a more stable environment than
> most.
> 
> How?
> 
> We're under AC most of the time, and RH levels seldom exceed 55% in most
> cases. There's not as much movement of the indoor RH here as there is most
> other places. There are exceptions, of course:
> 
> -those that live on the water who like to open the windows
> -those that do not like AC as much as most people
> 
> Those are the people that I 'strongly' suggest investing in the system. Most
> of them do. Those that don't have unstable instruments, period.
> 
> -Phil Bondi (Fl.)
> tito@philbondi.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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