Another way might be to check the codes to see if designating a room in certain way, removes it from the catagory of having to have the max air flow. All codes have a clause that allows them to be adapted to fit any situation. Certainly the archival rooms at the Smithsonian don't have this problem. Maybe you could call the building a museum. The George Blowharder Museum and Piano Conservatory. KR On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Put in a BIG room humdifier. Set a swamp cooler in the hallway. Fill it >> with a bucket. Plug it in. >> >> I know it's sounds ridiculous but so is what is happening. It's really a >> good idea when compared to lighting a piano on fire and claiming it was >> spontaneous combustion because of the low humidities. Attract some >> attention. >> <GRIN> >> > > > More practically speaking, tape a garbage bag over the air ducts > (even just one of them, exhaust or the active one). Then a regular room > humidifier will do its job, like in a room in a house. The air will get a > bit stale over time, especially if the windows can't be opened. But the > piano will be happier. > It would take an enormous output of moisture to counteract having > the entire volume of air in a room replaced at the standard rate, which I > think is as high as three times an hour. Does somebody know? My memory is > not clear on that, but I remember being astonished when I first came upon > the figure many years ago. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110113/5de90fe9/attachment.htm>
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