[pianotech] Question with Climate Control System

[James Grebe]

Since you did not ask me I would say the DC would not help that problem. 
After it becomes stabilized at A-440, probably so.  One does not undo many 
years of lack of service  and quickly it becomes OK.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ursula Hammerling" <ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:45 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