Soundboard Moisture Content

Greg Newell gnewell@ameritech.net
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:55:40 -0500


Can anyone give me an idea of the normal moisture content of a soundboard? 
The current conditions are Northeast Ohio older home but fairly well 
insulated. The heating system adds moisture to the room via an April air 
type unit in the forced hot air furnace. The piano is a roughly 10 year old 
Petrof. The weather lately is normal spring type weather for this region 
i.e. 35-55 ish degrees with off and on rain. The customer used a pin type 
moisture meter on his own soundboard and reported a 21% reading.
Have any of you taken readings directly on the board with either a pin type 
or a pin-less type meter ad compared them to the Hygrometer reading some of 
us normally take? Would it be useful information to obtain these readings? 
If you were buying one for the main purpose of measuring boards would you 
buy pin type or pin-less? Why?
Thanks in advance for your inut.

Greg Newell
Greg's piano Forté
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net 



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