>Thanks your answer, Ron. I'll try to snip so this doesn't meander. > >>I've been wondering myself if a hard blow CAN drive a string up a bridge >pin, or if it's exclusively a humidity swing thing. > >Well, are false beats worse in the eastern U.S. where humidity changes are >drastic, or do they also happen in places like Montana and Arizona? If >people can clean up false beats in dry climates by seating strings, then >something other than humidity is at work. Hard blows seem a likely place to >look. Actually, humidity changes in Arizona are drastic. Last week the RH was 11%. In a few more weeks the temperature will start climbing and many people will use evaporative coolers and the RH in the home climbs to about 50%. The next stage in this God-forsaken desert is the monsoon season (I know what you're thinking: "A monsoon season in Arizona, ya right!") in July and August where a temperature of 115 and a RH of 50-60% is quite common. I realize that 50-60% RH is not very high, however, as you cool the air with a heat pump or AC, many times the system cannot remove enough of the moisture and you end up with 70-80% RH readings inside. Add to that the days that it rains - still over 105 and now the RH at 90-100% and one begins to doubt one's level of sanity for leaving a place like Calgary (which ras real seasons) to come here (a place whose only two seasons are "HOT" and "HOT AS ^%#^#%&!!"). ---- Rick Florence, Piano Technician Arizona State University, School of Music http://www.asu.edu/cfa/music/
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