Isn't there any way to avoid leaving the piano outside overnight? Unless you have unusual weather, the high humidity at dawn is just gonna kill it. Maybe a nearby garage? Anything but outside. Your thoughts on a morning tuning and then again right before the fact sounds reasonable. How fast can you tune? I tuned a few outdoors and if the sun is able to get at it at all, I've never been able to finish a tuning prior to it being way out of tune again. Good luck! Terry Farrell On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:01 PM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote: > This Saturday a piano in my care will be used in an outdoor > performance. I have been allotted time from 7-9 AM to service it, > and again at 1 PM prior to the 2 PM down beat. I will also be able > to spend time with it Friday afternoon, INdoors. Friday night, > everything goes "outside." The piano will be covered (floor-length > skirt), but, aside from that, will spend the night exposed to the > elements. > > My question is this: Do y'all think it would be productive or > counterproductive to tune the piano from 7-9 AM, or am I better off > letting it warm up (and dry out!) during the morning hours, then do > what I can in the time just before the performance (assuming, of > course, that I do not get bumped from that slot!). > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Alan Eder > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101007/b1e3e9ee/attachment.htm>
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