At 07:03 2/13/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Dave, >Do they cycle the temperature up and then down through the day? > >Andrew >Las Cruces, NM >At 12:57 AM 2/13/2004 -0500, you wrote: >>Listers, >> >>I had a tuning today on a brand new Kawai RX-3 6 foot 2 grand. The piano >>has been in the house for maybe 3 months. It was closed up tight, but >>when I opened it, I saw that rust was already starting to form on the >>strings and on some of the pins. I was shocked, and was at a loss to >>figure out how this could happen, especially in a house with radiant >>heating(that's another issue). Did you see it in the showroom before it got to the house? Could the rust have started in the crate in trransit across the Pacific? I've seen that happen on other makes when the integrity of the container and individual crates were compromised. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 - Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
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