John, Do you dry them out in the oven? How often? Are they effective? Andrew At 03:50 PM 11/14/2005, you wrote: >Bags of silica gel, if kept dried out, might solve your problem. >The bags used to come in the pianos from the Orient, and were >normally thrown away. >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca >----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Anderson" ><andrew@andersonmusic.com> >To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> >Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:03 PM >Subject: [CAUT] Humidity Blues > > >>Here in Laredo we are 2 hrs from Corpus Christie and 4 hrs from >>South Padre Island. Our climate is essentially coastal with high >>humidity a constant issue. >> >>I am looking for solutions for our high quality instruments to keep >>the strings from rusting. All of them have some level of >>corrosion developing. All are a few years young. They all have >>quilted covers. One has a DC dehumidifier system under it. >> >>I am wondering if an Edwards woven felt string-cover would afford >>the additional protection we need to keep those strings from >>rusting more. It seems that we must be having enough of a >>temperature differential occurring to cause condensation on the >>strings. The wool should buffer both temperature and humidity. >> >>Anyone out there with experience successfully battling this? >> >>Maybe PureSound Wire is the way to go. >> >>Andrew Anderson >>TAMIU, LCC, LISD, UISD >> >>_______________________________________________ >>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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