Overpulling a Steinway

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

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Documenting humidity & temperature at the time of tuning gives you 
something to go on when asked about why things have changed.  If current 
conditions are quite different, that makes it obvious.  It also is a sales 
aid when presenting the benefits of a climate control system, such as the 
Piano Life-Saver System by Damppchaser.
The combo hygrometer/thermometer available from Damppchaser records extreme 
highs and lows as well if a customer wants a history.

Andrew
At 11:36 PM 3/30/2005 -0500, 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.
>

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