Carpet Cleaning

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi David:

I think your assessment of the situation is to be applauded. If they can
hold off a little longer for the tuning, your tunings will hold out a
little longer also. Otherwise, you could get a black eye over this.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Vanderhoofven wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> One of my accounts, a private college with about 12 owned pianos (and 10
> Baldwin loan pianos) is having me tune a bunch of the pianos before the
> semester begins.  Today I went to check out the situation, and all of the
> carpets in the music department had just been cleaned.  There were big fans
> going to help with drying out the carpets.  Classes start in two weeks, but
> about half of the pianos need tuned before next Friday (August 20, 1999).
> 
> I explained to the music department secretary that the moisture in the
> carpets would adversely affect the tunings and that it would be best to
> hold off for a week or two longer.  
> 
> I assume that the pianos will all be very sharp in pitch due to a hot,
> humid summer with no air conditioning in the building, and with an
> additional dose of moisture from the carpet cleaning.
> 
> Does anyone have any direct experience with this type of situation?  How
> did you handle it successfully in the past?  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> David Vanderhoofven, RPT
> Joplin, MO
> (filling in at Ozark Christian College for a good friend who is injured)
> 
> PS.  It was nice meeting a lot of you at the CAUT class "The ABC's of
> Academic Tuning".  I don't have any answers, just questions!
>