<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The room Paul is talking about has had problems for years. The building simply needs a new HVAC system, but it's not high on the university priority list. The room in question has gotten worse in recent years. The complaints would go in and the facilities people would come over right away. They were cooperative, but the problem was bigger than a quick fix. The problem would be okay for awhile, but inevitably return. I took pictures to prove how bad it got. These were taken in May, just before I retired. It was so damp it was foggy and water was dripping from the ceiling. Not good for the pianos or for the electrical stuff either.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Richard West</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:0E962E09-8F86-49EA-99C9-DC04CB8DFC27@local"><SPAN><IMG src="cid:6AE0E150-CA6B-403A-B865-DD01DCC55107@local"></SPAN></SPAN><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi list, </FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">We have a classroom/recital hall with a huge humidity problem. Has anyone else had this problem: </FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">The room seats about 200 and has a Steinway D from the late 70's and a harpsichord. The room can change by 30-40% or more in a day! Over the T-Day weekend I put in one of those small humidistat from Pianotek and it showed a range of 24-80%!!! Not only are my tunings worthless for recitals if I tune in the morning and the concert is in the evening (as some days, that is the only time the room is available), but it has got to be wrecking havock on the instruments. It doesn't have a piano life saver system in it, and I wonder how much it would help with such wild swings. I and all the faculty have complained about it (apparantly for years prior to my getting here this year) and nothing gets done.</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">Can I do more that just cover them and go ahead and put a DC system on it? They do have thick blanket style covers on them.</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">Sweating to the oldies in Lincoln....</FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif">Paul </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>