Vinney, It will not do any direct harm, but then the harm that it will do is to give the coustomer a false sense of their doing something that will resolve the problem. There is not enough room in the bottom of an upright to add enough jars, evaporating water off their surface, to match the volume of a DC Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinny Samarco" <vinsam@sympatico.ca> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:46 PM Subject: Jar of Water in Piano--Truth or myth? > Hi Everyone, > The area of the country I work in is very dry. Though we talk to many > people about humidity control, most are not interested in what I have to > say. > I recently tuned for a customer who had a very old, but recently rebuilt > upright. > The tuner who did the work is one of the best that I know of. Supposedly, > he told this lady to put a jar of water in her piano. > Now tell me, Will that do any good at all, or do you need some form of > distilled water or evaporation in the air to make any difference? > Vinny > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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