Hi David: I think your assessment of the situation is to be applauded. If they can hold off a little longer for the tuning, your tunings will hold out a little longer also. Otherwise, you could get a black eye over this. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Vanderhoofven wrote: > Greetings! > > One of my accounts, a private college with about 12 owned pianos (and 10 > Baldwin loan pianos) is having me tune a bunch of the pianos before the > semester begins. Today I went to check out the situation, and all of the > carpets in the music department had just been cleaned. There were big fans > going to help with drying out the carpets. Classes start in two weeks, but > about half of the pianos need tuned before next Friday (August 20, 1999). > > I explained to the music department secretary that the moisture in the > carpets would adversely affect the tunings and that it would be best to > hold off for a week or two longer. > > I assume that the pianos will all be very sharp in pitch due to a hot, > humid summer with no air conditioning in the building, and with an > additional dose of moisture from the carpet cleaning. > > Does anyone have any direct experience with this type of situation? How > did you handle it successfully in the past? > > Thanks! > > David Vanderhoofven, RPT > Joplin, MO > (filling in at Ozark Christian College for a good friend who is injured) > > PS. It was nice meeting a lot of you at the CAUT class "The ABC's of > Academic Tuning". I don't have any answers, just questions! >
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