[pianotech] Protection from underfloor heating.

[David Boyce]

Dean, may I gently and respectfully suggest that you may be a bit 
mistaken in your understanding of what heat is?

Heat is a measure of total kinetic energy of molecules.  It is not a 
"thing" in its own right.

Best regards,

David.
On 11/12/2012 19:00, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
> Radiant heat works not by warming the air, though there is some of that, but
> by radiating the heat, duh.;-)  Objects with mass in view of the radiant
> heat source absorb the heat and began to warm in temperature. The closer the
> object to the source, the more heat is absorbed. A piano with lots of mass
> sitting very close to the source will absorb lots of heat. While air, with
> negligible mass, will not absorb much heat. So measuring the air's
> temperature will not be any kind of indicator as to how much heat the piano
> is getting.

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