Wally, At 07:49 3/25/2004 -0800, you wrote: >One of my professors, a clarinetist, asked me to tune >the little Baldwin grand in the dining hall, as they >were having a concert/dinner the next night and he was >playing. The next week, when I asked him how it went, >he told me that it was a good thing he had a shorter >barrell for his clarinet as the piano went sharper and >sharper as the evening went on. Are you sure his clarinet wasn't going flat because of _his_ warm moist breath going through it? What was temperature in the dining room when you tuned it vs: concert time?? >I suspected that the increased humidity caused by 500 >people exhaling in the dining hall may have done it. >Have any others of you experienced a similar >situation? Generally, I've noticed a tendency for the piano to go flat as the house heats up. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. ---Wm. Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice
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