I have a lot of work to do where I am at. There are several tuners around who, shall we say, at best, "tooners". If they come to a client with a sticking key, most of the time, they won't take the time to evaluate the situation, they'll just recommend to install a dampp-chaser. The bad thing is, they just install the dehumd. and NOTHING else. In fact, they don't even install it, they just plug it in and lay it in the piano! I have quite a few clients in that situation described above, which I will be attending to one at a time. My thing is, I really don't want to get the humidifier as it has some maintenance that goes along with it. I live in South Texas, so it does get quite humid, but I would gather that indoors, the RH rarely gets below 42%. Can I get away with just the dehumidifier and humidistat? There were a few clients I serviced whose RH in their homes was in the 30's. But, like I said, how often will that happen? Maybe it's like that constantly (million dollar word there). Like I said, I am just shying away from the humidifier maintenance. Thoughts and comments? By the way, I really didn't mean to start a huge big thing with my initial post, but I guess I did. I apologize. TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Wed, 12/24/08, Keith McGavern <kam544 at allegiance.tv> wrote: From: Keith McGavern <kam544 at allegiance.tv> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Dampp-Chaser Brochure response To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 9:52 PM David, The Piano Life Saver System (PLSS) is a remarkable thing, and when I feel the customer will benefit with reduced pitch drift and extended tuning stability, I have no reservation in recommending the installation of such. As to your particular inquiry, I know this much. I have service one university institution for 30 years with an inventory of approximately 80 pianos. In some of the piano studios that that have two grands, only one piano in each of those studios has a PLSS. At a minimum of two tunings per year, the grands with the PLSS are always closer to pitch and more in tune than the grands without the PLSS system. However, in a truly hostile environment, the ability of their purpose can be thwarted dramatically. The best to find out is install a system in one of these areas on one of these pianos, and you'll find out soon enough of its benefit. You don't feel these systems would be able to react that quickly. The newest versions of these systems are designed to react more quickly than ever before based on the more recent installs I have done. The Dampp-Chaser folks are constantly (now here's where that word really applies) making this product better and better. They aren't sitting back on their laurels. Okay? Keith On Dec 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: I maintain 9 pianos at the SF Ballet. These studios have wide fluctuations of temp and humidity. When dancers are in studio the heat goes way up...sweating bodies...at night heat goes down...or off...would a damp-chaser help in this situation? It seems to me it wouldn't be able to react that quickly...? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081224/751dc65a/attachment.html>
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