[pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business)

William Monroe bill at a440piano.net
Tue Aug 24 11:44:02 MDT 2010


Oh, great!  I can see the newspaper article now, "Piano Technicians from
around the world flock to WI in search of unstable pianos to
tune................

WRM


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  *Gee, maybe we all need to move over there???  :)*
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> *From:* pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] *On
> Behalf Of *William Monroe
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:52 AM
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Subject:* [pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business)
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> Hee, hee,
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> Try WI.  I have a pretty advanced weather station on my property, and
> regularly monitor the outdoor RH (and contrast that with thin indoor).  I
> don't have central AC in the house, but it stays much more constant than
> outdoors.  Yesterday, the outdoor RH went from 92% at 8am, to 56% at 6pm, to
> 89% at 10pm.  It doesn't always change this fast, or frequent, but daily
> fluctuations are often in the 30% range.  Indoor fluctuations (running some
> window AC units occasionally) are more on the order of 10% - 15%.
>
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>
> William R. Monroe
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> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net
> > wrote:
>
> *You know, it all depends on the client, piano and location.  By location,
> I mean, what state we reside in…humidity fluctuations.  Here, I can tune a
> piano today and by next month (or sooner) it is already flat, or sharp, but
> it is changing already because of the continual variations of temperature
> and humidity.  Today, the RH was 48 %.  Last week when it was sweltering
> hot, it was right around 80%.  Tuning yearly, which I do like, I find them
> on pitch and close to being in tune but if it is a piano that is used often
> then obviously, we need to tune it more often. *
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> *I like to say that " Michigan is a great place to live if you're a piano
> tuner.   The weather changes so often that you're screwed no matter what.
> Today it'll rain, tomorrow we need the heat turned on, the next day, the
> A/C…."    *
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> *Basically, I like at least a yearly tuning to keep screws tight, hammers
> spaced and to catch other piddly crap before it turns into more serious
> piddly crap.*
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> *Jer*
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