Dampchaser Corner-cutter

[Glenn]

Colorado isn't that dry anymore.  Blame El-whomever or blame greenhouse
gasses but there are more and more high humidity days here on the Front
Range (area just east of the mountains).

Check the stats.

Glenn.

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: Dampchaser Corner-cutter


>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
>