Speaking of Humidity control ...

[Wallace Scherer]

I met a piano technician in Florida recently (the one who wanted to sell me
his business, remember?) who said he sold a lot of the Dampp Chaser heater
bars for grand pianos, but mounted them over the top of the strings with a
felt "blanket" over the heater bar. He said he did this because the biggest
problem with humidity in south Florida was rusting the strings, and not so
much the wood expansion and shrinkage.

Has anyone else, especially in normally humid areas, used this process?

Wally Scherer, Norfolk, Virginia
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