[pianotech] Hydroceel

[Terry Beckingham]

I have one client who keeps a full open bottle of beer inside her piano. I 
can't convince her that it does no good and is liable to fall over making a 
real mess. She insists that it makes her piano sound better.

Terry Beckingham

At 07:21 PM 4/29/2010 -0700, you wrote:
>Come on?  Nostalgia?   That would be Mason jars filled with water and the 
>lightbulb.
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA  94044
>
>----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>From: "Zeno Wood" <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Received: 4/29/2010 6:43:51 PM
>Subject: [pianotech] Hydroceel
>
>
> >I realize that the thing hasn't done anything since at least the time it
> >dessicated.  The client and I had a nice talk about the nature of humidity
> >in our neck of the woods, but he declined to get a Dampp Chaser right now.
> > Perhaps he'll go for it next time around, sometimes people need a little
> >time to think about it.  For him, the advantage of the Hydroceel is that
> >it's (presumably) less expensive, and perhaps it has a certain nostalgic
> >quality from his childhood, I don't know.   I helped him lug the bags of now
> >unnecessary mason jars to the curb for recycling and we called it a day.