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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe if you kept some records of what's happening
and then you and the head of the School of Music went and had a "What can be
done about this situation?" meeting with the folks at physical plant (or
whatever your school calls it).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I was on staff at Illinois Wesleyan, I
established an amiable working relationship with the head &
staff of physical plant and then was able to deal with a heating/cooling
issue (and lots of other stuff) with reasonable success. A good
relationship with that department is always a good idea, I think---though the
dynamics may be different at a big school.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu
href="mailto:pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu">Paul T Williams</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 27, 2006 11:28
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] large and rapid humidity
changes!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hi list, </FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>We have a classroom/recital hall with a
huge humidity problem. Has anyone else had this problem: </FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>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 (apparently for years prior to my getting here this year)
and nothing gets done.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>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
face=sans-serif size=2>Sweating to the oldies in Lincoln....</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Paul </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>