I always write the temperature and humidity on my bill. I guess I am kind of mistrusting, I would be afraid of someone stealing the hygrometer if I left it in a piano, with public access, such as this is. Suggest that they purchase the registering hygrometer, from their local Radio Shack, and make a graph of the years ups and downs. They probably won't do it for the year, but if they do it for a while, they will see the fluctuations, and with your explanation, will realize that it is not your tuning at fault. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia On 30-09-2011, at 2:37 PM, Tom Gorley wrote: > Marshall, consider buying a hygrometer to measure the humidity when you tune the piano. You don't have to guess the humidity outside-versus- > inside. The one sold by Dampp- Chaser costs about $45 and will also measure the high and the low. > > I always carry one in my tool box and when I suspect a changing humidity issue in the room, I leave it in the piano. The next time I check the piano I can read what the humidity high and low during that period of time. > >> Tom Gorley >> Registered Piano Technician >> > > > > > > On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Marshall Gisondi wrote: > >> Hi William & John, >> Thanks for your helpful advice. So am I correct then, the humidity outside will still have an affect even if the temp inside is pretty evey i.e ac is on? >> >> John the piano did exactly what you said, unisons were decent, but other things went sour. As for charging them, I did charge a little. This is a church and school with 10 pianos roughly. So I billed them for a "touch up" tuning. I felt I had to do this because I do use public transit often when I tune there sometimes with the cab, tip and train even with my discount card on the train the total one way can be over 10 bucks. I hope I'm not wrong in trying to make a profit. >> >> I was really worried when this happened. I know we improve as we go along in this field, but I was worried that my skill was slipping or that something was wrong. I almost felt panic. So to repeat, the humidity outside can still have an affect on a piano inside even if the temp inside is pretty even? How does the piano feel the change in humidity outside then if the room in this case a fellowship doesn't have windows? We've had our share of up and downs with weather here onthe east coast, rain humidity, a little dryer/cooler earlier this month and then warmer and more humid again. In fact when I return next month, I'm going to check it again becase we're supposed to get cool again this weekend and maybe warm up again. Thanks again guys. I hope youu can ease my mind over this this. >> Marshall >> >> Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician >> Marshall's Piano Service >> pianotune05 at hotmail.com >> 215-510-9400 >> www.phillytuner.com >> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110930/12b8c10e/attachment.htm>
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