Outdoors piano care

[David Ilvedson]

Keep in mind, condensation at night...I'm not sure what you would do about that or if it would be a problem...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Carman Gentile" <cgpiano at humboldt1.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 5/11/2006 4:07:21 PM
Subject: Outdoors piano care 


>My colleagues,

>  A local hotel wants to move their 1985 Yamaha G1 grand to an outdoor 
>stage for a two-week jazz festival in June. They asked me what precautions 
>they should take.
>   I advised them thus:
>1. Keep the piano out of direct sunlight at all times.
>2. Keep the Dampp-Chaser humidity control system plugged in at all times.
>3. At night cover the piano with thick blankets.

>  It will be for the last two weeks of June where the temperatures here are 
>mild:
>  AVERAGE MAX TEMPERATURE......  62.7
>  AVERAGE MIN TEMPERATURE......  52.1
>  AVERAGE TEMPERATURE..........  57.4
>If (unlikely) rain were predicted, they would move it back indoors.

>   Do you folks have any additional advice?

>Carman Gentile
>Redwood Chapter
>Humboldt County, Northern California
>