My college has 100 pianos that I tune frequently. The majority are tuned 4 -6 times a year. Of course, concert work is done a lot more frequently than that but, the concert instruments also have Dampp Chasers on them which helps tremendously. The pitch and humidity swings are kept to a minimum. Otherwise, with the rest of the building, humidity swings were horrible!!! In August, it would be 65 %+ RH. October 35 %, December 18-28 %. January through March, 14 %-20 %. Of course, tunings are all over the place. These past 18 months, the CFAC (Covenant Fine Arts Center) was closed for remodeling. They redid a complete renovation of the entire CFAC. 18 million bucks worth. Part of the building opened up in October at which time the RH averaged 35 %. Granted, it just opened so they were getting used to adjusing everything. We encountered the same problems Paul, one room was 80 the next was 65 degrees. Supposedly, they spent quite a bundle on a new HVAC system. This past Wednesday and Thursday of this week, it averaged 22 - 26 % RH. One room was 19 %. So much for a new HVAC. I think they're either over rated or the people responsible for them do not understood how to operate them. ? J From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:06 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Building humidity now, GREAT! It's at 45% this morning and has stayed between 39 and 45 for a month now! I'm a happy guy! Super cold snap and snow in a couple days, so we'll see if it can handle it. Paul From: Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner at msn.com> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Date: 01/07/2011 01:26 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Building humidity now, GREAT! _____ Paul, Wondering how your building humidity is holding up. The engineers are coming Monday... Diane Hofstetter ---------------------------------------- > To: caut at ptg.org > From: a440a at aol.com > Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:55:18 -0500 > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Building humidity now, GREAT! > > Paul writes: > >>Don't know what happened, but facilitiesmanagement on UNL has > our building reallly nice. 40% humidity solid forthe past 3 weeks!! How > they did it is beyond me, but it's there and I'mliking it! I hope it > holds! > > Greetings, > Everything will be fine for a couple of weeks, then we have two > days of 78 degree rooms, followed by a day of 60 degrees, then back > hovering around 70. Every time the weather begins changing, the system > needs a couple of days to react. Knocks the hell out of practice > rooms. Stage pianos are tuned often enough, (several times a week) > that they ride through the changes with a few cents swing up and down.( > I do NOT change a concert piano's pitch 2 cents to match 440 if it is > intact where it is.) I am trying to get a semester's worth out of each > tuning in the teacher's studios, but that only happens when nothing > else goes wrong. Which is rarely. > In an ideal world, the budget would be as elastic as the > temperature, and I am just wondering what the real world does. What > have other CAUTs said to the administration inre costs of tuning going > up with HVAC problems. > Regards, > Ed > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110107/eb9a5e99/attachment-0001.htm>
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