Deep Freeze Piano!!!!!

[John Ross]

Hi Ed,
There are lots of old country churches, that turn the heat off, during the
week. They turn it on for the Sunday service, possibly the night before. As
the church heats up, so does the piano, and they use it.
Those pianos, would be below 0 through the week.
I am not saying how close to tune it is, but they find it useable.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
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Subject: Re: Deep Freeze Piano!!!!!


> Greetings,
>    My overall impression is that this story is the result of a reporter
> looking for a novelty storyline and a tech that is stretching the
envelope.
> Obviously, thumping a freshly frozen and retreived carcass of a piano
isn't going
> to produce much basis for serious anything.  If it does,  I'll invest the
time
> to find out more, then, yet..??
>
>    On a common thread,  Bill Garlick once related that an upright in the
> lobby of a Canadian hotel would certainly have been exposed to 30 below
for the
> winter and suffered no apparent damage, and when they returned to the
hotel  in
> the spring and began opening it up, it was amazingly close to in tune.
>    I don't think freezing temps would be anywhere near as important a
> consideration as the condensation and thermal shock that would happen when
the
> carcass's change  back to normal temperature was as sudden as walking out
the door,
> rather than a month or two cycling back from Artic conditions in a closed
> building.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
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