---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Z!, Anything that keeps as much sun light off the piano, as possible has to be helpful. Roger At 11:25 AM 8/20/01 -0400, you wrote: > > Would it help at all if the outermost layer was a highly reflective material, > such as mylar? I'm thinking primarily of those times when the piano is left > sitting out in full sunlight ....... > > Z! Reinhardt RPT > Ann Arbor MI > <mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net > > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: <mailto:baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>jolly roger >> To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org >> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:31 PM >> Subject: Re: Hot and Heavy [ON Topic] >> >> Hi Z!, >> Both of our concert grands have to the floor fitted tarps, that are >> heavily quilted, it helps quite a bit. But there is no real way to over >> come those concerts in the park, stability type things. Minimizing is the >> best you can hope for. Besides the heavy tarp, laying two moving blankets >> on the strings inside the piano seems to help. But I may be fooling myself >> on that one. >> Insulate and protect, in the best way possible. >> Regards Roger. >> >> >> >> >> >> At 07:07 PM 8/19/01 -0400, you wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone! >>> >>> How hot can a piano get before you run into more serious problems than >>> changes in the tuning? What are some of the problems people have observed >>> after a piano got hot? >>> >>> Over the summer I tuned at a couple of festivals on what were otherwise >>> beautiful summer days here in Detroit but must have been nightmares for the >>> pianos. As usual, I was asked to tune first thing in the morning despite >>> the stage manager's full knowledge that the tuning will be seriously >>> "altered" by the time the featured artist was going to play. Over the >>> course of all the set changes, the pianos were often relegated to some >>> out-of-the-way corner of the stage where they sat out in full sunlight, >>> often wearing black naugahyde covers. Those pianos were probably hot >>> enough to roast a fat steak by the time I came back to them to "touch them >>> up" just before the performances. (The stage managers have been told >>> repeatedly not to leave the pianos out in full sunlight for any length of >>> time ....) >>> >>> Since then, those pianos have been doing one-night stands all over metro >>> Detroit and I haven't crossed paths with any of them yet since their >>> sunbathing sessions. Nor have I heard any comments from the other >>> technicians who have serviced them since then. Meanwhile I came to yet >>> another concert rental recently which had numerous loose lead weights in >>> the damper system, and I'm wondering if that one also got a good "sunburn" >>> at some point over the summer. >>> >>> Thanks in advance -- >>> >>> Z! Reinhardt RPT >>> Ann Arbor MI >>> <mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net >> > > > > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/58/23/4e/18/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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