Cold weather coming up

[Sy Zabrocki]

While tuning a good old Howard upright, grandma came in and told me this tale about this Howard. Seems in the "olden days" they often hauled this piano to some barn where they had barn dances. Once in the winter they hauled this piano on a sled with a team of horses. When hauling the piano back the sled slid off the trail, the piano fell off and skidded down a gully.

It was determined it was too difficult to retrieve the piano in cold weather so they just covered the piano with canvas and left it there until spring. Well that was decades ago and here I am tuning this piano which I thought was a good piano. Apparently the piano survived this event with little if any damage. 

Sy Zabrocki--Billings, MT

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From: 	Delwin D Fandrich[SMTP:pianobuilders@olynet.com]
Sent: 	Monday, October 06, 1997 11:13 PM
To: 	pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: 	Re: Cold weather coming up

ahector@rust.net wrote:
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I have a grand that I have rebuilt and it is going to have to spend this
> year in a pole barn. If I bring the action inside will the rest of the
> piano be damaged by the changes in weather ? I dont really have too much
> of a choice in the matter, but if it is going to wreck the piano I will
> have to make some room for it somewhere.
> 
> Andy Hector
> Rochester Hills, MI
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Andy,

You're decision about where to store your piano for the winter depends
on what you want come spring. If you fear that you may run short of
firewood, then by all means leave the piano in the pole barn and use it
as needed. By spring that is about what it will be good for. If,
however, you've been prudent and stored up enough wood to keep you warm
and you would still like to have a piano in the spring, then I'd suggest
that you bring the piano in with you.

There are some parts of the country where you could get by with this.
Your's is not one of them.

--ddf