[pianotech] Clarification Question: i'll take a pass

[Terry Farrell]

And your point is?

Terry Farrell

On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Michael Magness wrote:

> Hi Dean, Ron & Terry,
>
> I've been following this discussion when I've looked in on the list  
> but I've had no time to do no more than take a quick look. I had 2  
> grand actions I was replacing hammers,
> shanks & flanges on for a high school and middle school to have  
> finished, regulated  &  for the opening day of school today. Mission  
> accomplished used the new carbon fiber
> shanks and flanges on both, 30 YO Yamah C5 and a 1924 Packard.
>
> I live in the SW Wisconsin 12 miles from the Mississippi, the  
> LaCrosse river runs about a 1/2 mile from my home and the Black  
> river is about 5 miles away. I do a lot of work in
> Tomah/Warrens area  which is the Cranberry Capital of Wisconsin. I  
> have postd before about the high school in Tomah, they drained a  
> swamp to obtain the land to build it on.
> I will begin by saying I agree with everything Ron has said to this  
> point. My son works in the HVAC field so what I hadn't gleaned after  
> 30 years in the business he's filled in over the last 11.
>
> Large commercial buildings, like the high school I mentioned above  
> and the Radisson hotel in downtown LaCrosse, WI with a swimming pool  
> indoors do not use a conventional type AC
> with freon/ condensor etc. The systems they use are called chilled  
> water systems, which (simplifying for the sake of brevity)pump cold  
> water from deep in the earth up through pipes which
> run the water through a radiator type manifold through which a fan  
> blows air, cooling it. The result is cool, humid air which feels  
> colder than regular A/C and of course is harder on our pianos
> and their tuning. The Radisson, for example is built of reinforced  
> concrete with the aforementioned indoor pool it is 2 blocks from the  
> Mississippi and uses one of these chilled water systems.
> The Kawai GE-1 grand has a Dampp-Chaser system in it and had a full  
> cover until they washed it, they won't buy a new one, the manager  
> thinks it looks prettier without it!!
> They purchased a UST-7 at the same time they bought the grand but  
> due to the conditions in the building had to replace it with a UST-8  
> about 9 years ago.
> Tomah high school just bought new P-22's, the new P-22's they bought  
> in '86 are worn out, partly due to building conditions, partly to  
> high usage.