Jeff, I have some experience with storing a piano in a climate controlled box, pulling it out the afternoon of the performance, tuning it, playing it, then putting it back in the box immediately afterwards. The conditions I'm now dealing with could be a bit more extreme, ie better control in the box, and a somewhat more dramatic change on stage most of the time, but my previous experiences have been satisfactory and I'm under the impression that it's SOP, no? It's taking it out and leaving it out for a couple days on a regular basis that has me worried. The frequent use issue is something else and I think they just want to use their new piano a lot at least temporarily. On top of it all is the fact that's it's green piano, fresh from NYC. Carl On Feb 9, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Jeff Tanner wrote: > Hi Carl, > My recommendation would be to use the rebuilt piano for teaching > and save the new piano for performances. You simply cannot keep a > piano that is being constantly used for teaching and rehearsals in > concert condition. Regarding the climate issue. Anytime you pull > that piano out of a climate controlled closet and it hits a change, > you will introduce instability to the piano. The effects of > climate change are immediate. It will be out of tune for > performances if the hall is different from the closet where it is > kept in optimum condtion. > > We keep our recital pianos on the stage all the time. We only use > the closets when something else is going on and there isn't room > for the pianos. They're really unstable when the room is > unstable. But when the room climate stabilizes, it usually isn't > anywhere near any optimum climate target we would have in a piano > closet. So, we're better off having them out all the time. At > least they will be more stable for performances. > > Good luck, > Jeff > > > > On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Carl Root wrote: > >> I've just finished my first semester of piano service at a local >> community college - forty odd pianos. Things are going fine, but >> the purchase of a new Steinway 'B' has raised an interesting issue >> that maybe you all can help me solve. The department head knows >> of this post and has indicated he will be guided by your >> recommendations. >> >> The piano will be stored in a small room (large closet?) with >> fairly sophisticated climate control equipment. It will be rolled >> out onto the stage of a small auditorium for performances, but >> there is some interest in bringing it out for classes on stage a >> couple days a week as well. Given that the temperature and >> humidity is all over the place on stage, I'm concerned about the >> effects on the piano having it go back and forth every forty-eight >> hours or so alternating between 42% and who knows what. >> >> There is another older rebuild 'B' on stage which is not a teacher >> favorite, and they'd like to use the new one as much as possible. >> >> I'm not too keen on this 48-hour cycle and would rather have it >> used only for performances. >> >> Comments? Suggestions? >> >> Carl D. Root, RPT >> > > > > Jeff Tanner, RPT > Piano Technician > School of Music > University of South Carolina > Columbia, SC 29208 > (803) 777-4392 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070209/426d39ea/attachment.html
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