[pianotech] Soundboard deflection - Pitch raise

[perrys piano restorations]

Has anyone out there considered that the drastic weather which causes pianos to sound out of tune to even the most tone-deaf of customers might be an economic stimulas? 
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
> | [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Truitt
> | Sent: August 05, 2009 2:57 PM
> | To: pianotech at ptg.org
> | Subject: Re: [pianotech] Soundboard deflection - Pitch raise
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> | We have had the mother of all rainy summers this year. The 
> | pianos are going bonkers. I have tuned some pianos in the 
> | last couple of weeks that were almost 40 cents sharp on 
> | middle C, and the high treble as much as 85 cents sharp.
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> | It's such a rainy summer that my standing joke is, "All this 
> | rain and humidity is making me suicidal. I was going to 
> | slash my wrists, but I couldn't get the knife drawer open!"
> | 
> | Will Truitt 
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> No we haven't. We're coming up on the driest season on record. As well as the
> hottest. I mean, 107.6º in NW Washington state! Come on, this is ridiculous.
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> ddf
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