This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_00D8_01C5FCFD.F43533E0 Years ago we had a summer music festival move their D under a tent for part of their season and we had the bright idea of covering the piano with plastic and putting a low wattage light under it to keep it dry. It did, but when the sun went down it attracted every moth in the area. Seriously though, a portable hair drier can be used to dry out action centers pretty quickly in a pinch. - Mark Dierauf - -----Original Message----- From: Farrell [mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:56 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Changing Humidity & Concert Tuning, was: FT.com article Next Friday I will be tuning a 7-foot Yamaha grand piano for a 5-piece jazz performance. The stage will be outside under a tent roof. The piano will be delivered and set up on the stage on Wednesday. So, whatever the weather is doing at that time it will have a couple days to trash the piano one way or another, no doubt. I feel comfortable going into this situation, but I must admit, I haven't a clue as to what to expect. Winter day time is usually pretty dry down here in central Florida, yet most nights humidity goes right up to 100%. Anyone with any constructive thoughts on this one? What to prepare for, etc., etc.? Any horror stories about similar situations? I was thinking that what the dude really needs to do is install a high-power DC dehumidification system under the piano with a good bottom cover and then put one of those quilted covers over the entire piano. Can't imagine they'll do it, but seems to me anything less is courting disaster - unstable tuning, sluggish action, etc., etc. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- 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 Published: December 9 2005 02:00 | Last updated: December 9 2005 02:00 >From Ms Marguerite Wolff. 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 ------=_NextPart_001_00D8_01C5FCFD.F43533E0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ce/1f/e2/73/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_00D8_01C5FCFD.F43533E0-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 102 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2c/27/9e/76/attachment.gif ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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