Zach, I have three incidences for you. I'll give you only one now and the rest later. I was to tune a room in a church complex. One that I had tuned for the past ten years, and it was always solid at 440. It was a cold winter day. I think the temperature barely got to 50 degrees that day. I found the room heated to 85 degrees, and the pitch had dropped to about 435, and all scroogied up. They told me that the furnace was broken and was waiting for the repairman, due in a couple of days. I declined to tune it, waiting for developments. I returned a few months later and found it right at 440. This may not fit your "temperature only" request because the high heat heating that colder air would have lowered the humidity, too. ---Tom Gorley On May 9, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Zachary LaMotte wrote: > Dear Fellow Mailing-List Members- > > I am Zach LaMotte (current student at CSPT and newly applied associate member for the PTG!). After extensive research on past discussions in the forums, I have found a lack of talk on the effect of temperature on tuning stability. I am well-read on the impact humidity plays on the piano. > > I am requesting (kindly asking/begging) for any experiences, references, crazy stories, where any of you may have had temperature, not humidity, playing a factor on tuning stability. This could be an outside concert situation, stage light situation, mother-in-law making you raise the temperature in the house situation, etc. I will be conducting a temperature-based experiment and will share my findings once the experiment is finished. Thanking all of you in advance. > > -Zachary LaMotte > "Aspiring Piano Tuner" > > -- > Be Well, > > Zach LaMotte > zachlamotte at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110509/b9c04b31/attachment.htm>
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