On 1/8/2011 9:43 AM, joel a. jones wrote: > Ron, & list > > Champion humidity. It's definitely worth the effort. That's exactly what I did, every single tuning round for at least ten years prior to the HVAC "upgrade", and what I do at every opportunity. I consider it to be absolutely stupid to chase 30¢ pitch changes in 20 or 120 pianos twice a year or more, year after year for lack of humidity control, and then not to include humidity control in a million dollar upgrade of the HVAC system. I'm always on good terms with the maintenance folks. They get me in to places where the administration scheduled tunings, but made no attempt to arrange physical access. Taking George to lunch, or to Europe for that matter won't get a non existent humidification system turned on. Their climate control is not a bit better now than it was before the upgrade, but their pianos continue to age and deteriorate. There was money for the new HVAC system that didn't address the problem for which it was installed, and for last years new track and football field, but their fleet of untunable pianos isn't getting badly needed rebuilds (they passed beyond repair potential a good 20 years ago) for lack of money. Ron N
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