[CAUT] rehearsal room climate swings

John Minor jminor at uiuc.edu
Tue May 16 13:23:09 MDT 2006


I've been fighting wide swings in temp/humidity in university
buildings for 13 years now and the tuning stability seems to
get worse each year. One of our buildings recently underwent
HVAC updates and the air exchange is now much more rapid that it
ever was. I suspect this constant high volume flow of outside
air around the pianos has a great deal of destabilizing effect.

Has anyone tried using Edwards String Covers to shield the
pianos from all that airflow? 

Any ideas?

John Minor
University of Illinois

The 2 images are from a DICKSON DATA LOGGER tucked under the
soundboard of a Steinway B in large rehearsal room. It was set
to log hourly readings.
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