Hi Richard. Thank goodness for a different direction for this thread! ;-) Hey, I saw your picture. I think I remember seeing you in Arlington, but I do not believe we met. I hope we do sometime! I think most techs in most parts of North America use/install/recommend the complete system. I believe most techs in Florida, or at least the south half of Florida, do not use the humidifier portion. I have monitored many a home interior in the winter and I do not think I have ever seen a RH reading below about 35% - and that is rare. I do suppose however that in some retirement communities down here the RH tends to get a bit lower when the mercury plummits below 60 degrees F outside and the home heat is cranked up to 85 degrees F or so. But those tend to only get tuned/serviced when the piano is newly inherited, so its kinda hard to track whether dryness was part of the reason that the piano is so flat and/or falling apart. Not using the humidifier is part of the reason that I pay quite a bit of attention to where the humidistat is cycling on and off at. If it does what it is supposed to do and go on at 46% RH (or so) and off at 38% RH (or so) it will maintain a very constant year-round RH if the room only drops to 35% at the driest. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:24 AM Subject: Re: Different question about heater bars > > > Ron Nossaman wrote: > > > Good grief Richard, enough already! You aren't going to convince Terry that > > heat doesn't dry out soundboards. Wanna guess why? Soundboards don't seem to > > show any interest in semantics and high concept. They aren't much interested in > > RH% either, but the resulting changes in EMC sure get them moving. Remember > > pianos going flat in the winter and sharp in the summer? Remember Dampp-Chaser > > systems and how they ameliorate humidity swings and stabilize seasonal tuning > > drift - all with a few HEATER BARS??????? Hello, hello. Testing... testing... > > <G> > > > > Ron N > > Grin.. Sorry Ron... sometimes I just cant help myself... Dont you guys use the > complete systems down there ?? > > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > > >
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