Hygrometer

[Farrell]

With my own eyeballs, I have seen a semi-trailer full of new Brand S pianos parked in a no-shade asphalt parking lot in Tampa, Florida for a full week in August - heavy rain most days and 93 degrees in the shade (the week prior to the yearly University sale). Talk about climate uncontrol! There is NO excuse for this.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: Hygrometer


> Hi Dale... 
> 
> I think whats been said is that the shop climate is not
> controlled. I dont think anyone has said anything about
> climate control in the hot box. Perhaps a small detail
> really given the extremes in Humidity in New York, but
> still.. So.... anyone seen Steinways Hotbox ?
> 
> To take all this a step further.... I wonder how much
> difference it makes with such climate control, given the
> fact that from the first minute an instrument is place on
> the trucks to ship out, or at least from the first minute
> they are on the floor of some store... the climate is
> probably just as uncontrolled as most other places.
> 
> I mean ok... say NY Steinway installs state of the art
> building climate control systems, super seal their
> intruments and ship them off to some Jacksonville store
> where the Humidity is 90 % at 90 F. Seems to me you have
> just delayed the inevitable.... or what ?
> 
> RicB
> 
> > >   It certainly does seem strange to me that in any
> > > factory relying on compression crowning  in this age of
> > > technology would want to insure a more uniform
> > > temp./R.H. levels to srictly control emc. When I visited
> > > Mason& Hamlin the hot box temp. humidity and air
> > > circulatuion was meticously maintained for even EMC
> > > levels prior to pressing. Mason and Hamlin is rib
> > > crowning their boards by the way.
> > 
> > ...Dale Erwin
> > 
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
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