Hi Jim (& Paul, & Don), Thanks to you all so much for the benefit of your experience in situations such as this. There will be a temperature differential of at least 20 degrees F from night/early AM to afternoon, but I may be able to keep this puppy out of the sun (thank the powers that be for small favors, eh?). Alan E. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> To: caut <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Oct 7, 2010 7:01 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] when to tune... Hi Alan, I had the same situation for the Mormon Tab Choir and here aresome things that might help. I got a white sheet to cover the piano and reflectthe sunlight. This REALLY seemed to help because w/o it the black piano heatedup in just minutes. With it on it stayed fairly cool to the touch. Next, keepthe lid closed and the cool plate acts like “blue ice” in a cooler.The strings will stay moderately constant. When I’ve opened up the pianothe strings responded too much to the ambient temperature. To answer your real question, I’d tune it in the morningjust to fix anything majorly wrong, then tune it again just before theperformance. The other things are tricks I’ve used many times which workfor me. Best, Jim Busby From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:02 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] when to tune... This Saturday a piano in my care will be used in an outdoorperformance. I have been allotted time from 7-9 AM to serviceit, and again at 1 PM prior to the 2 PM down beat. I will also be able tospend time with it Friday afternoon, INdoors. Friday night,everything goes "outside." The piano will be covered(floor-length skirt), but, aside from that, will spend the night exposed to theelements. My question is this: Do y'all think it wouldbe productive or counterproductive to tune the piano from 7-9 AM, or am Ibetter off letting it warm up (and dry out!) during the morning hours, then dowhat I can in the time just before the performance (assuming, of course, that Ido not get bumped from that slot!). Thoughts? Thanks, Alan Eder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101007/9740de6e/attachment.htm>
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