Church environments are so brutal ... I'm not sure the "normal" rules apply ... especially these little country churches where they only use normal (comfortable) A/C settings for maybe 5-10 hours per week! A semi-lucid thought from Alan Barnard, Salem, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Koval" <drwoodwind@hotmail.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: humidity drops, pitch goes up?! > New one for me: > > Here in the midwest, it's common to see all the pianos tuned over the summer > needing pitch raises now, as the heat has been on for awhile and the > humidity has dropped. > > Petrof 7' in a church, I'm reasonably sure that I'm the last one that tuned > it on 6/8, where the humidity was around 45%. Just went there for the xmas > tuning, humidity was under 30%, but the piano was 10 cents sharp........ > kinda chilly in there, around 64 degrees - anyone out there care to hazard a > guess? No D/C system installed. > > Beats me > > Ron Koval > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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