I do strongly suggest to all clients to have a humidity control system installed. When I first began offering these, I only suggested them to clients that I thought would be more likely to afford them. Then I realized that I was doing a dis-service to my spinet, old console and upright owning clients. I realized that this was probably the only piano that they would ever own, and why was I not suggesting something to them that would improve tuning stability and the life of the instrument. Now everyone gets information on humidity control systems. BTW I just installed my first G8PS-50-SHB-B in a Petrof II. It is in a church and we have left a note to unplug the system before services and to plug it in afterwards. I have sent a suggestion to Dampp-Chaser to have a two level warning system with the buzzer. I would like to see the lights come on at one level of water in the reservoir and the buzzer at a lower level. That way the church would not have to unplug the system to avoid a buzzer sounding during services. I have also thought about putting this system on a timer set to be off only during services, but figured with power outages that this would not work. Larry On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:16:08 -0600 Don <drose@dlcwest.com> writes: > Hi Larry, > > Then do what is best for your client and install a humidity control > system. > Particularly on uprights pitch corrections of less than 1.8 cents > per year > on *any* note are sometimes possible. > > At 12:27 PM 06/18/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >Check out Steinway's web site, care of the piano. Under tuning it > states > >that the piano should be tuned AT LEAST! 3-4 times a year. What's > better > >for my client IS better for my wallet. > > > >Larry Messerly, RPT > >Prescott/Phoenix, AZ > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. > > Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts > > drose@dlcwest.com > http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ > > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner >
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