That's good to hear. But, what about seasonal changes from 70% to 15%?? That's what I'm worried about. Paul I'm out for today, but please, everyone chime in and I'll see it in the morning! Thanks!! pw reggaepass at aol.com Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org 12/01/2008 06:20 PM Please respond to caut at ptg.org To caut at ptg.org cc Subject Re: [CAUT] What to do??? Hi Paul, Every winter we have to contend with RH below 30% almost all of the time and under 20% for a good deal of it. It goes with out saying that this is bad for pianos (and string instruments, reeds, organic drum heads and the like). We have many Yamahas and some Steinways, Bosendorfers, Falcones and Baldwins. They have all unquestionably suffered from this extreme seasonal fluctuation, yet there are no separated ribs (that I am aware of), and a few compression ridges, but no opened soundboard cracks (yet). As for tuning stability, like the guy from Joisey sez, "Fa-ge-da-bou-dit." Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 2:51 pm Subject: [CAUT] What to do??? Hi all! I always appreciate your input. Here's a new twist... Our building is currently dangerously dry. When Richard West was here, the administrative secretary always told him to contact the "facilities" people, directly, across campus who controls the campus buildings to turn on the steam to remedy the situation. I was also told this when I started to do this and and have, regularly. This year, I have tried for the last 3 weeks to do this with no=2 0results. Our humidity, now, is below 20% and the pianos have gone completely wacky as you can imagine. After sending several messages to facilities, I got no results. I sent another to our director, and another to the senior vice chancellor ( a customer of mine for her personal piano) and other esteemed folks. I got a "cease correspondance" message back from our director.(probably embarassed) He now states that I have to report to the finance/business director, who responds to him, who responds to the Dean of Fine Arts, who then calls facilities to turn on the humidity!!!!!! Is this the biggest load of political crap you've ever heard of?? He states that I have to go through the channels of authority to get anything done in "such a large university:. With this crap, I might see the steam turned on in January!!!! If ever....How come Richard was able to just get the steam turned on? I now fear cracking boards, loose ribs, separating bridges, failing glue joints of every kind, and the like. I then went to the "finance/business manager" (?) and she said bluntly that she had no time to deal with this issue today. Should I just throw up my hands and say, "whatever"? or should I go to Home Depot and buy 110 buckets to put water in and set them under each piano to try to help them through their "hospice"???? HELP!!!! Paul Tis the season to save your money! Get the new AOL Holiday Toolbar for money saving offers and gift ideas. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081201/aab2919e/attachment.html>
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