[pianotech] Tacoma, WA

[Susan Kline]

Our summers in the Willamette Valley are less rainy than the other 
seasons, but certainly not dry as a bone. Also, in the last few years 
we've been getting far more rain in the summer than previously. This 
June was practically wet.

This August the rains truly stopped and we've had a few hot days. 
However, with the house wide open much of the day, my humidity gauge 
reads consistently over 60%. This morning, after several mostly sunny 
weeks and no rain at all, the humidity gauge reads 65%.

It's not just what the climate at a particular place IS, it's also what 
the climate is becoming. Personally, I'm glad that climate change seems 
to increase rather than decrease our rains here. I far prefer that to so 
much of the country, with tinder dryness, incendiary heat, and wild 
fires. Actually, on a science program way back in the 80's, I saw a map 
of the US showing what a climate model for warming predicted. The 
Northwest was the only place getting wetter and cooler instead of hotter 
and drier. I'm starting to think that the climate model may actually 
have been right.

Susan Kline

Larry Fisher RPT wrote:
> I have to agree with Ryan.  I’ve always felt the tendency for a piano 
> to stay in tune better when there’s a DC installed.  I’m about 100 
> miles south of Tacoma and I’ve seen some installations on pianos with 
> in view of the coast as well as some in the middle of Portland.  They 
> all perform quite nicely with a properly serviced DC complete system.  
> It may rain all winter around here but the heats on and the windows 
> are closed.  This dries out a house as long as there aren’t a lot of 
> exterior doors being opened and closed repeatedly.  Our summers are 
> dry as a bone and all the windows are open.  It’s hard to fathom but I 
> think the interior ambient humidity is higher when the lawn turns 
> brown.  Currently at 6 AM the humidity is 90 percent and the lawn has 
> green spots where the weeds are struggling for survival.
>  
> A customer called in August asking why he has to keep adding so much 
> water to his system.  “Your Dampp-Chaser system is doing it’s job” was 
> my reply.
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