deep thoughts: DAMP CHASER

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Ah ... one dissent. 1903 Steinway S. Weak block. She'd had the piano
restrung and some other work. Still had 2/0 pins (?). Installed DC w/o
undercover. Not only did it close up a soundboard crack so wide I could see
her dog playing under the piano, but there was significant improvement in
the block after about 8 weeks. Now this was during a season change (Winter
to Spring) but she keeps her house pretty sealed up and climate controlled.
Sure seems like it made a difference, whatay'all think?

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Greg Newell
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:16 PM
To: wayne.hohle@sympatico.ca; Pianotech
Subject: Re: deep thoughts: DAMP CHASER


Wayne,
         A Damp-Chaser won't do a thing to loose tuning pins in any grand.
The unit can only control the soundboard bridge area. Check on the web site
and you should be able to find a diagram of how there mounted and that
should be worth a thousand words or so. A properly mounted unit can and has
helped tuning pin tightness in an upright installation but never, that I'm
aware of, in a grand.

Greg



At 07:45 PM 3/3/2003, you wrote:

>hi there
>all your responses to this thread have been interesting to me and it
>seems to a few others as well. the disgust of finding a really bad piano
>passed off as a good piano certainly is hard to forget. usually it means
>someone lost out on getting thier musical education. i mean a piano of
>any brand, gone bad.
>one comment i read suggested the use of  the Damp Chaser product in the
>suspect pianos. what do you think of that?
>this winter with the long cold spell here i can think of three 6ft
>grands that i serviced that really suffered in that dry spell . a
>kawaii, a yamaha, and a stienway.  all dropped about a 1/4 tone, the
>kawaii showed up loose pins  in the lower tenor, the stienway even had a
>few keys warp. its the old saying 'pianos don't kill pianos ....people
>do'.
>so the question.....would a product like Damp Chaser salvage some of
>these grey market pianos? you know some books suggest it.
>all the best
>wayne
>
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Greg Newell
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