piano at outside wall

[Tony Caught]

Actually Terry the best I've seen is a C3 Yamaha left outside at a bush camp
around Alice Springs. So OK, it was covered by a tin roof. I suppose I could
have set up a complete system with a genset but when its 45 C in the shade
you bloody near have to spray it with water to keep the humidity up.

Tony Caught
Darwin Australia
caute@bigpond.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: piano at outside wall


> "....humidity at 6 degrees C is 5%...."
>
> Yikes! I have my little beefs about Damp-Chaser systems varying a bit from
42%, but they do seem to keep the piano's environment in some suitable range
of relative humidity. Geez, what does one say to this? These conditions are
worse than those at many landfills - piano would be better off there! I just
can't in any way shape or form imagine having any piano exposed to these
kind of conditions without a good humidity control system and expect it to
work more than a month or so. Perfect or not, time for a DC unit - maybe
two - one inside and one under a cover on the back.
>
> Terry Farrell