Hi Julie, Recording temperature and humidity levels at every tuning is very important. What Don wrote sums up the reasons. Sincerely, David Vanderhoofven Joplin, MO At 10:36 PM 3/30/2005, you wrote: >Greetings, > > No, I never document the humidity or the temp. I figure it > really will not tell me anything, since lots of churches turn the > sanctuary heat way down all week and only warm it up for Sunday mornings > and some on Wed evenings. When the temp and humidty are fluctuating from > week to week in the winter, how can you have a baseline at all? I am > tuning in there in March with a coat on, only the congregation knows what > the piano sounds like on Sunday all warmed up. > > As far as residential customers, I have no idea of the range > of warm or cool they like their homes in the passing seasons and some of > the more affluent homes have central air and dehumidifiers built in. What > can recording a temp reading from one day in which you visit there to > tune, tell you about all the other temperatured days in that dwelling? I > think,,,,nothing. Its all so arbitrary.....Am I being too scientific? > Also some customers live in wooded areas on mountaintops and others live > in mecadam and concreted city surroundings. > > I think all temperatute recordings that are eneterd onto a > chart which the customer could record on a weekly basis would really be > da bom...(as the Geiko commercial says), but who would ever be willing to > commit do such a survey? Am I missing something here?....afterall, I do > only have a wopping 21 months in this business. Should I record? What > would it tell me? > >Julia >Reading, PA > >In a message dated 3/19/05 8:02:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, >anrebe@zianet.com writes: > >>Julia, >>Did you document humidity and compare with the present. Of-course, all >>bets are of with an unknown tooner/tuner in the mix. >
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