Tuning a concert piano with humidity control

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

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
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> 
> -----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
> 
> 
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