Dampp-Chaser threads

[Don]

Hi Greg and Mary et al,

One very useful comment was made about 2 years ago on the listserv.
Cigarette smoke travels in a room at 44 feet per second. I see *no* reason
why water vapour should *not* do likewise.

At 11:38 PM 3/8/98, you wrote:

>Rob and List,
>	Now were really getting to it!!! I've wondered about this for
>years now but for fear of being severly chastised by those D-C
>groupies out ther I've kept my mouth shut!  I now ask the following 
>and welcome all responses.  Can it be substantiated that a properly
>installed D-C system on a grand piano actually creates and imbalance
>in the piano for exactly the above stated reason by Rob Kiddell?  I
>mean if the unit is mounted where it is mounted and has no clear path
>to effect the action cavity, is the action actually affected?  If we
>can assume that the system does not control the entire room ( and I
>think we can)  then it must create an imbalance where there
>originally was none.  Is it correct to control only one part of the
>piano and leave the rest alone?  
>If there is now an imbalance, are we producing sound normally foreign
>to a piano from moist hammers and dryer soundboards say?  Are there
>any other ramifications?  What about pinblock verses soundboard?  I'm
>sure we can all agree that these are very interrelated to tuning
>stability.  What have you all to say?  
>				wonderingly,
>						Greg Newell
>Greg and Mary Ellen Newell
>Greg's Piano Forte`
>Lakewood, Ohio 44107
>gnewell@en.com
>
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
"Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
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REGINA, SK
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