[pianotech] Question with Climate Control System

[David Ilvedson]

You need to get several tunings on it...it will stabilize as well as any other piano in your area...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

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From: "Ursula Hammerling" <ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 5/4/2010 7:45:49 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Question with Climate Control System


>Thanks so far for your answer, Tom and Joseph. My question is more related to the 
>fact, that the piano had never been tuned in its previous life and it stabilized off 
>pitch and out of tune. Would a climate control system compensate and stabilize this 
>kind of a piano enough to warrant its expense?
>-Ursula

>Ursula Hammerling

>Registered Piano Technician

>Washington, NJ  07882



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>--- On Tue, 5/4/10, Qshooterq at aol.com <Qshooterq at aol.com> wrote:

>From: Qshooterq at aol.com <Qshooterq at aol.com>
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Question with Climate Control System
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 5:57 PM

>Hi, Ursula,   If the are no visible signs of damage then that's the place to start.   I 
>have a related story. I had trouble with a 7ft Bosendorfer with wild swings from 
>tuning to tuning.   The customer said that humidity swings were not an issue in his 
>house.

>I installed a dehumdifier. The problem improved by 50%.   Shortly afterward they 
>moved.   At the new location the piano was as solid as a rock. The moral of the story 
>-- don't believe the customer, use Dampp Chaser's meter that records the high and 
>low humidity.     ---Tom Gorley





>In a message dated 5/4/10 11:27:02 AM, ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com writes:





>Hi List,



>I have a customer with a 40 year old Baldwin spinet. When she acquired it, the 
>owner told her, it had never been tuned. This piano is very unstable on 2 tunings a 
>year.



>Does any one of you have experience with a climate control system in this kind of a 
>case.

>I put climate control systems into other pianos with good results, but am not quite 
>sure, whether it is justified in such a case, whether the tuning would become much 
>more stable. Is this throwing good money after a hopeless piano?



>Thanks,

>Ursula








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