pianotech@ptg.org Come over and tune with me !!! We don't even "think" about dampchasers. In Riyadh Saudi Arabia..it's about 40 to 43%RH "all year long" My stability is near to "Zero" drift for about 1 year!!! Unfortunately for me, I am just today ordering a humidity gauge, I have kept accurate record of each and every I've tuned in the last 10 years out in the desert. "All" let me say "every" piano that gets to me within 1 year is a loose as can be. This I think is a blessing in disguise. After tightening up everything "everything" (Yep check all those plate bolts too...yep all of them) I have pianos now for more than 9 years, that have "never" been off more than 2% after one year! I was called to Hafra Battan, to a camp, and sat down to tune, and found to my amazement, it was not even 4% low. Hum I thought, pretty good work for this area. ( most of the service I see performed by one eared mules are never even ....well + or- 50 to 135% is not uncommon. Further inspection reviled, it was one of my pianos, the client told me he got it from this person that person got it from someone else, etc., well I had "secretly" left my small identification mark on the inside, this piano was moved 6 times back and forth across the country, and had not drifted 4%. The client assured me "no one had tuned the piano "ever" (except me over 5 years ago) Moving makes a piano go out of tune...get real....tuners make pianos go out of tune. Gregory
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