Need Stable Advice

[Don]

Hi Dave,

If I were in your situation I would install a full Damppchaser system with
bottom cover and auto shut off using the "high" setting humiditstat with a
20 foot cord. I would get a "child proof" cover for the outlet that the
unit is plugged into so that it takes a greater effort to unplug it. I'd
arrange an email contact for whom ever is going to look after exchanging
the pads on the unit and email them to remind them of the need. 

At 03:55 PM 3/8/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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