At 09:31 PM 9/26/98 -0400, you wrote: >"Colorado is too steadily dry to need to add water." > >Susan, will you please pass that one by me again? > Newton > Hi, Newton My other post should have clarified this seeming contradiction. Personally I don't like ever _adding_ water to an instrument, and I think that the only time it is justified is in climates like the southeast or midwest, where the summers are both hot and terribly humid. Since they are so hot, there is no way (except a lot of air conditioning) to keep the excessive water out of the pianos. I think it is not the _being_ dry that harms pianos, but the _becoming_ dry when the piano has been wet. So, since Colorado is almost always pretty dry, pianos get safely dry and stay that way. No rust, no failed glue joints, no mildew, fewer vermin, almost no verdigris, less hardened felt, no fusty odors, no compression ridges and cracks, good tuning stability from one season to the next, etc. etc. etc. This assumes, of course, that the piano hasn't been damaged by excessive humidity already before it was brought into the dry climate, and that no one uses the infamous swamp cooler around it, or leaves it in a damp basement, etc. So, why put water in, and risk all that stuff? Just my take on it .... Susanspoiledbywesternclimates Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com
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