damaged piano -- vents

[Ed Sutton]

Christopher Alexander, an architect who has written some great books on the
process of architectural design, said that the closest thing to the Soviet
Union under Breszhnev is an American State University Campus!
Ed S.

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>From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.music.sc.edu>
>To: caut@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: damaged piano -- vents
>Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2002, 12:34 PM
>

> This building was being planned for over 20 years.  Humidity control was
> probably 2nd only to space on the priority list of the faculty who'd been
> involved in the planning.  I learned that when the building was beginning
> to become reality, one stroke of a bean counter's pen got rid of humidity
> control without the building committee even knowing it until it was too
> late in the process to even debate it, much less get it added back.
>
> Oh, space was trimmed significantly, too.
>
> Shame too.  Humidity numbers I get are no different from the numbers I've
> seen from the century old building they were in before.  About the only
> advantage climate wise is that pianos aren't sitting next to radiators.
> But it may be even worse, in that there was no air handling system
> constantly exchanging outside air in the old building.
>
> Now, we're having a "feasibility study" for a mid-size concert hall (which
> was to be the 2nd phase of this building).  I told my dean if they aren't
> going to include humidity control this time, they may as well just build an
> ampitheater, and get one of those metal storage sheds from Lowe's to keep
> the pianos in.
>
> Then again, I'd better hush.  They might just take that seriously.
>
> Jeff
>
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>>Jeff,
>>You mean that humidity control was actually considered at all, however
>>briefly, during the "wish and trim" planning stage? Incredible! Just
>>getting the difference between temperature and humidity across to the
>>planners of such things is far beyond the powers of most mortals. Could be
>>an all time first.
>>
>>Ron N
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