Tuning a concert piano with humidity control

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 05:26 3/7/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Phil,
>
>Yes, if possible. No, when the stage manager doesn't listen.
>
>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.


Stage manager??? WAZZAT?!?!?!  everybody and everything moves the pianos in 
the recital hall.

This morning after again finding the hamburger unplugged,  I put the 
following on the piano and the wall backstage:


!! Attention !! [in 48 size font]

It seems to be a little known fact that the humidity control system fitted 
under the Hamburg (shiny) Steinway Concert grand works better at 
maintaining the tuning stability when it is actually plugged in.


After moving on or off stage and after recitals, when it may have been 
unplugged for aesthetic reasons, PLEASE PLUG IT BACK IN!  There are 
multiple outlets under the trap doors on stage and an outlet next to the 
emergency door backstage. The cord will reach to one of them, no matter 
where the piano may be located.

Conrad Hoffsommer
Piano Technician. – Jenson 189 - x1204



Not that it will do any good, but there is a preliminary competition in 
there this evening and this is a little bit of CYA.
With any kind of luck, by the final competition on Thursday it will be back 
to stable.

[vent over]





Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT, MPT, CCT, PFP, ACS, CRS.
Decorah, IA

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