[pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business)

Gerald Groot tunerboy3 at comcast.net
Tue Aug 24 14:09:52 MDT 2010


Yeah and William had to tell us all to come there because the climate varies
so much!  See you soon William!!!  

 

 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of William Monroe
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:44 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business)

 

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???  :)

 

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)

 

Hee, hee,

 

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%.

 

William R. Monroe

 

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. 

 

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.."    

 

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.

 

Jer

 

 

 

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