Dean, that's a great idea! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean May" <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com> To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: RE: Tuning a concert piano with humidity control > On a stage piano I take care of I actually installed a retractable cord > reel under the piano. Worked great. > > Dean > Dean May cell 812.239.3359 > PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 > Terre Haute IN 47802 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On > Behalf Of Conrad Hoffsommer > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:16 AM > To: Pianotech > Subject: Re: Tuning a concert piano with humidity control > > 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 > > - Certified Calibration Technician for Bio-powered Digitally Activated > Lever Action Tone Generation Systems. > - Pianotech Flamesuit Purveyor > - American Curmudgeon Society - Apprentice Member and Founder > > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >
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