Damp Chaser Question

[Ron Nossaman]

>Good question indeed Gordon. Especially on a vertical piano with a DC 
>dehumidifier installed on a humidistat. I tuned a fairly new Yamaha studio 
>in a church recently with a DC dehumidifier. The pitch seemed to wander 
>around quite a bit (4 cents or so) during a 5-cent pitch raise and a 
>tuning. As soon as you open the piano up, everything is going to change. 
>So you ask the church keeper to have the A/C set to their service 
>temperature when the piano is played closed, and you need to open it to 
>tune it. What is a tech to do???
>
>Any thoughts or observations on this apparent problem?
>
>Terry Farrell

Well, after trimming the 6K of previous posts from the reply, a tech will 
probably eventually come to the conclusion that they can't have everything 
the way they want it (most especially in a church or school), and will play 
it where it lies. You does what you can, then you moves on.

Ron N