Humidity (was Re: workload simplified)

Don pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
Tue May 7 12:40 MDT 2002


Hi Fred,

Your facility could certain benefit from dc units on every piano.

At 10:07 AM 5/7/02 -0600, you wrote:

>	In my situation, we have a typical rise of 50% between April and
>August, leading to _major_ pitch lowering of every single piano (20 - 50
>cents is normal, meaning that range on every single piano). If all the
>pianos are pitch lowered and fully tuned by the beginning of the
>semester (I wish), four weeks into the semester, after the humidity has
>dropped its typical 10 - 15%, every piano needs a pitch raise and full
>tuning. And again more or less every month until humidity reaches and
>stays at bottom. To keep faculty piano studio pianos in adequate tune
>would require weekly full tunings (the piano profs and students suffer).

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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