Heat for the piano

[Don]

Hi,

I have experimented in country churches using a dampchaser system in
conjunction with a thermostate. I used light bulbs in series with y
connectors so that they would not likely ever burn out. It works well.

At 08:15 PM 05/11/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>
><<   a building that
>will be unheated during the week, and they want to be sure that their
>Yamaha P22 isn't damaged by the cold.
>I never heard of any piano heater and told her that as far as I know she
>doesn't need to worry that temperature swings will damage the piano.
>Was I right? >>
>
>Greetings, 
>    My first reaction was to answer yes, no, maybe........  
>   On second thought,  it occurs to me that that piano will never be in
tune. 
> If you tune it cold, and they warm the place up fast, you could have 
>condensation on the instrument, (as well as the pews, walls, windows, etc.) 
>   To my own logic, (which is always open to question, so fire away.... when 
>your brain is on fire, a little flaming feels like a cool spell !)  the
speed 
>of change has as much to do with destructive effects as the degree of
change. 
> I have seen a guitar top craze when it was brought out of a cold car trunk 
>and opened up in a very warm room.  How fast, and how differently are the 
>back and front of that soundboard going to change?   
>    My self-protective impulse is to tell them that stability will always be 
>a problem, then tune it on an unheated day, with a nice well temperament,
and 
>let them get used to it.  
>Regards,
>Ed Foote
>
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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