Vince, Just curious, but how much extra time is devoted to watering those Dampp-Chaser systems and have you incorporated that into your time savings? Ours here burn water year-round (I still don't understand why the humidifier's using a bucket of water every two weeks in 70% humidity) so servicing Dampp-Chasers is something to consider even during "breaks". In our situation, the Dampp-Chasers haven't changed the number of tunings I do, just sort of kept the madness to a little less of an extreme. Jeff >Fred, et. al., >I would like to comment on the humidity variance factor. I have found that >before dampp chasers were installed in piano faculty studios, to >adequately keep >them in tune, I did full tunings on them every two weeks. With the systems >installed, I would go in every week and just tweak the tuning (10 min.), >after a >full tuning once per month. We have humidity swings of about 30% on average. >This works out to be 9 hours worth of work per semester before the dampp >chaser, >and 6 hours after it was installed. >It seems to me that more than 30% humidity variance would not have necessarily >increased the 9 hours, because the brunt of the changes would happen between >seasons. So I think that variances in humidity may have its limits. >vince Jeff Tanner Piano Technician School of Music University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803)-777-4392 (phone)
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