FT.com article

[Porritt, David]

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Great story!  I dried an action once by putting it in the trunk of my
back car on a hot Texas day.  It worked like a charm.  However, I no
longer have a black car and will never have one again here in Texas.
They're just too hot!!!!!!  They dry actions well tho.

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David M. Porritt

dporritt@smu.edu

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:55 AM
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A lovely article from today's Financial Times of London (ft.com)

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1b588c30-6859-11da-bfce-0000779e2340.html

Peruvian piano tuner's alternative medicine for a Steinway grand
By Marguerite Wolff=20
Published: December 9 2005 02:00 | Last updated: December 9 2005 02:00
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>From Ms Marguerite Wolff.

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Sir, One of the dreads of a concert pianist is to face playing on a
piano affected by humidity. The piano can be good, bad or indifferent,
small or large, the effect is the same; sluggish sound and enormous
difficulty in playing rapid and filigree finger work.

I have just returned from Peru giving concerts and was going to give a
concert at the residence of the British ambassador, playing an exacting
programme of Chopin-Liszt.

It was a beautiful sunny day. Everything seemed perfect - a delightful,
co-operative ambassador, beautiful music room, above all a Steinway
grand that had been tuned and a humidifier used in the room. But alas,
there was tremendous humidity. I was in despair. The tuner returned and
I begged him to use all his skills and time.

He then took the entire action out of the piano and put it on a stone
step on the terrace in the sunshine for a few few hours, and said: "That
will do more than anything I can do."

That night at the concert the piano played like a dream.

Marguerite Wolff,

London W1B 1NS

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