Jeff, I find essentially the same situation you do with the dampp chasers keeping pitch swings to a minimum, but still having to keep after the tunings (just not having to spend much time touching them up). But I assign the maintenance to our student helper. There have been times where I had to do it myself, in which case, since I'm in each studio weekly, I would spend at most 5 minutes filling each piano. Probably 10 minutes changing the pads every 9 months or so. vince ) 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
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