Overpulling a Steinway

[David Vanderhoofven]

Hi Julie,

Recording temperature and humidity levels at every tuning is very 
important.  What Don wrote sums up the reasons.

Sincerely,
David Vanderhoofven
Joplin, MO

  At 10:36 PM 3/30/2005, you wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>           No, I never document the humidity or the temp. I figure it 
> really will not tell me anything, since lots of churches turn the 
> sanctuary heat way down all week and only warm it up for Sunday mornings 
> and some on Wed evenings. When the temp and humidty are fluctuating from 
> week to week in the winter, how can you have a baseline at all? I am 
> tuning in there in March with a coat on, only the congregation knows what 
> the piano sounds like on Sunday all warmed up.
>
>            As far as residential customers, I have no idea of the range 
> of  warm or cool they like their homes in the passing seasons and some of 
> the more affluent homes have central air and dehumidifiers built in. What 
> can recording a temp reading from one day in which you visit there to 
> tune, tell you about all the other temperatured days in that dwelling? I 
> think,,,,nothing. Its all so arbitrary.....Am I being too scientific? 
> Also some customers live in wooded areas on mountaintops and others live 
> in mecadam and concreted city surroundings.
>
>            I think all temperatute recordings that are eneterd onto a 
> chart which the customer could record on a weekly basis would really be 
> da bom...(as the Geiko commercial says), but who would ever be willing to 
> commit do such a survey? Am I missing something here?....afterall, I do 
> only have a wopping 21 months in this business. Should I record? What 
> would it tell me?
>
>Julia
>Reading, PA
>
>In a message dated 3/19/05 8:02:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>anrebe@zianet.com writes:
>
>>Julia,
>>Did you document humidity and compare with the present.  Of-course, all 
>>bets are of with an unknown tooner/tuner in the mix.
>