Hi List, Hope this isn't too long, I'll try to include lots of info. Just before Christmas I got a call from a big church needing an "emergency" tuning the next day (Sunday) for a big program with full orchestra. Since I'm "less experienced", I had time to do it. The piano, 1980 Yamaha C7 gray market, had been tuned 2 weeks before. It seems that they've had it about 3 years and it won't stay in tune very long. I carefully looked for structural problems and gave it my best, stablest tuning (no laughing, please) and got done as the orchestra was showing up. I figured I'd never hear from them again. They called this week to schedule the next tuning. Seems that I did something right, and they're hoping I'll be able to make it more stable. My "less experienced" feeling is that it's a climate issue. The church has a roll back ceiling, so even though we don't have big humid/dry changes, it probably has access to more changes than most rooms. Dampp Chaser might be the answer, but in my chapter, there is only one guy (that I have found) who uses them, and he only uses just the rods with a humidistat. If it had only the rods, would it dry the piano in such a way that it would experience the same problems as gray market pianos in dry climates? Got any other ideas? Am I missing something? Thanks, Dave Davis Renton, WA Assoc. PTG __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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