Thanks, Ed. I'll look into that option as well. It's just a frustration for me as the instrument is only played a few times a year,mostly for rehearsals, but I'm still the go-to guy to make sure it works!! At least our organ professor has given me instructions that it will be used muchly this spring semester. I'm all for that. At least it's getting played. I hate maintaining things that are rarely used! They're certainly not museum quality instruments, for sure! our Benn up on first floor is a really nice one that is a joy to tune and has no probs... Now: Who knows much about pedal claviers?? 2 upper manuals and a bass pedal system that takes 2 people to tune?? paul From: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com> To: <caut at ptg.org> Date: 01/05/2011 01:21 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] scaling a Tyre harpsichord? So if the strings are breaking when the humidity rises after being tuned to pitch at low humidity, you have your answer. Consider lowering pitch proactively. It may be possible to install a rod and humidistat through the belly rail. There's usually a mouse hole behind the action. Ed S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul T Williams To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] scaling a Tyre harpsichord? 300 cents rise or swing from flat to sharp? 300 sounds scary! I've probably had 200 cents total variation flat to sharp, but nothing that drastic from a440 Paul From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 01/05/2011 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] scaling a Tyre harpsichord? More like 300 cents here. Kent On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Fred Sturm wrote: > 100 cents is common for harpsichords with a 50% or more rise in RH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110105/0eed66ea/attachment.htm>
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