Carman, No experience, but will be getting some this year. I have received a sample quantity of the product, which I will be placing in selected customers' pianos, and making purely subjective jusdgements about whether it helps control humidity-stimulated pitch changes. I expect that if you want some samples to try, you could get them. Here's my partially informed opinion: I was in the same limo with Terry, same conversation with "the Music-Sorb guy" Taylor McKinnon. IMHO, a couple pounds of any magic crystals won't have the capacity to absorb a summer's worth of Wisconsin humidity, nor to maintain the necessary moisture content during a 30%RH winter. But it just might clip the peaks of the extreme changes, say in a place where they sometimes opens the window, and sometimes runs the AC. And when the heat comes on in November, instead of the piano drying out in a week, it might stretch the drying out over a month or so. It remains to be seen whether this can be heard in the tuning stability. Mike Spalding RPT > [Original Message] > From: Carman Gentile <cgpiano@humboldt1.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Date: 8/6/2003 6:08:23 PM > Subject: Music Sorb product > > Greetings skeptical yet progressive colleagues: > > In the August issue of the PTG Journal is an article on page 40 > introducing a product called "Music Sorb". It is a silica product packaged > in a pouch which (it is claimed) can stabilize the humidity in a piano. > > Anybody have experience or an INFORMED opinion about this product? > > Carman Gentile RPT > Redwood Chapter > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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