Piano Location

[John R Fortiner]

I tune the pianos for the local school district.  Last Friday, however, I
did come across one "location" that really broke about all the rules. 
The piano was stored in a storage room off a gym floor ( gym also used as
a performance area).  That wasn't the really bad part.  In the same
storage room was a rather small sized UNVENTED electric clothes dryer to
dry mop heads and dusting cloths for the custodians.  Talk about rapid RH
swings!!  (This is Montana where the RH is normally too low, but the RH
in that room measured 76%.)  I won't mention the lint that covered the
keyboard and the piano's interior or what the small amount of soap
residue being vented into that room by the dryer is probably doing to the
action.  Hey, the piano was a Baldwin 243.  Maybe they were trying to
steam the hammers. :-(

John R. Fortiner
Billings, MT.
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