This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Everyone! How hot can a piano get before you run into more serious problems than = changes in the tuning? What are some of the problems people have = observed after a piano got hot? Over the summer I tuned at a couple of festivals on what were otherwise = beautiful summer days here in Detroit but must have been nightmares for = the pianos. As usual, I was asked to tune first thing in the morning = despite the stage manager's full knowledge that the tuning will be = seriously "altered" by the time the featured artist was going to play. = Over the course of all the set changes, the pianos were often relegated = to some out-of-the-way corner of the stage where they sat out in full = sunlight, often wearing black naugahyde covers. Those pianos were = probably hot enough to roast a fat steak by the time I came back to them = to "touch them up" just before the performances. (The stage managers = have been told repeatedly not to leave the pianos out in full sunlight = for any length of time ....) Since then, those pianos have been doing one-night stands all over metro = Detroit and I haven't crossed paths with any of them yet since their = sunbathing sessions. Nor have I heard any comments from the other = technicians who have serviced them since then. Meanwhile I came to yet = another concert rental recently which had numerous loose lead weights in = the damper system, and I'm wondering if that one also got a good = "sunburn" at some point over the summer. Thanks in advance -- Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/9e/38/ce/f1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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