humidifying tube

[Don]

Hi Jon,

Effective where you live perhaps--but not where I live.

At 03:50 PM 2/27/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:21 PM 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dear Friends,
>>Recently I have seen, in an institutional and in a private piano, a
>>device which was new to me. It is a plastic tube, white, about 3' long,
>>small long slits in the side, yellow end caps, filled with
>>I-don't-know-what absorbent material. The piano owners tell me that they
>>soak the tube in the bathtub till it is heavy, wipe off the outside, and
>>put it in the piano on the plate; they believe this provides needed
>>"humidity" for the piano. When the tube feels light (about one week)
>>they repeat the process.
>>Has any of you ever heard of this approach? Does it help the piano? harm
>>it? have no effect? I was a little alarmed when one customer said she
>>didn't remember the name of the person she bought it from but he also
>>sold clarinets.
>>Thanks for any input.
>>Dorrie Bell
>
>These work. I've have used one in an upright and it kept the pin block 
>tight through the winter months.
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>Not as hi-tek and DC but better than a mayonnaise jar but effective none 
>the less.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jon Page,   piano technician
>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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