Ron Nossaman wrote: > > Well, it's happened again. I just pulled YET ANOTHER unregulated > dehumidifyer heater bar out of a piano ....... Hey Ron, I had to beg a customer to remove a heater bar from under the pin block!!!!! It was on all the time. Took about two tunings to convince him. When I find an unregulated bar, I disconnect the bar after explaining why it should be turned off. "Everyone forgets to turn it off in the winter." If they don't want to add a humidistat, I tell them to leave it off. Usually, when I'm called for the tuning, it's been several years since the last tuning. They need the paino tuned today because there is a party tomorrow night or Johhny's teacher can't stand the paino any longer. So, I tune the paino anyway. Yes, the piano might go out of tune much faster now, but it't been years since it was tuned so it might have gone out quickly anyway. _______________________________________ My dentists' brother-in-law works at the Steinway factory in Hamburg (I thinks that's were it's at). I'm told he is a big honcho over there. Well Wolfgang told the dentist that even full damp-chaser systems are bad for the paino...dries them out!!! So I go back to tune and its super sharp cause the system is turned off. The system is back on, but now I'm back to square one. _______________________________________ I tuned a church piano a few days before Christmas...it had been unseasonably warm in the Washington DC area...light jackets only. Now we have good, cold normal weather. The church calls up and says the paino is 10 cents flat (they measured with guitar tuner). It was only 5 cents flat. The humidity was 29% and temp was 61 degrees. So no wonder it dropped pitch!! Their damp chaser had been turned off when I tuned it... it's back on again and I'll retune. But I bet they don't fill it with water. Yes, I checked the other piano I tuned in the practice hall, it's also down 5 cents. I bet I end up dumping this church. Oh well, it beats an officec job!! -- Frank Cahill Associate Member Northern Va
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