Tim, I think you've got the answer, to several threads discussed recently herein: It's the rate of change as much as the change itself, yes? Other comments? >Also sprach Horace Greeley : Well, thanks, but even Zarathustra "saw the light" at the end, and I have a much more clear picture of my limitations... Best. Horace >> >> Dear Guy, >> >> Just how frozen is frozen? >> I can't speak on the subject of frozen Steinways, but I have seen several >old uprights that have been frozen solid (at least 0 F. /-20 C.) annually >for years. These are instruments that people keep at their summer >cottages, and they seem to stay in tune from one year to the next at >least as well as those in "normal" Great Lakes region houses. They do >not seem to suffer many of the common problems associated with being kept >in buildings which are heated in the winter. I can't say for certain >that the finish isn't damaged, because I don't know their history, but I >see no good reason why it should be, unless it has a high water content >to start with. I recently had occasion to try out a piano at -10 C which >I had tuned at a coolish room temperature a few months before, and aside >from being a couple of beats sharp, it was in pretty good tune--much >better than it would have been with a 30% change in R.H., anyway. I >would suspect that the rate of cooling would be more of an issue than the >temperature per se in terms of the likelihood of damage. > >Tim Keenan >Noteworthy Piano Service >Kitchener, ON. Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu "The defining statistic of death is that it has a one to one ratio." - George Bernard Shaw LiNCS voice: 415/725-4627 Stanford University fax: 415/725-9942
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