Roger replied: > > I bet they noticed the octaves going sharp at the first 5 or 6 >notes on the tenor section. FWIW. >Tuned one this morning, Piano was 5Cents sharp overall, and almost 30cents >sharp on the first tenor note. >A DC will help a lot in this case. The long bridge does not fair so well >with big humidity swings on this maodel. Dampp-Chaser was promoting their "under cover" at Reno, with graphs showing it will keep the piano's RH very stable. Send DC & PTG info to all concerned parties (pianist, music director, pastor, music committee members) before you go. There's no reason for you to give them a free tuning after several months, and extreme humidity changes, but if you make the sale of a complete system (smart heater bars, under cover included) maybe it would be acceptable to "eat" the tuning fee for a tenor touch up. Good luck, Patrick Draine PS Roger Wheelock was at the CyberCafe, demoing 2 humidity/temperature monitoring systems. One cost about $50, the other $200. Both have small monitors, from which you download the data to your laptop. A very cool system for selling/explaining to institutions why their pianos won't stay in tune when their micro-environment is pushed all over the place (heat, air conditioning, etc).
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