Tuning Gone Bad: The Outcome

[Bigeartb@AOL.COM]

Terry,
     As you already know, humidity changes can cause pianos to do some real 
strange things. A church recently took their Baldwin Hamilton Studio piano 
from their air conditioned church and placed it in the hot sun on an outside 
stage. I tuned the piano continuous times and the pitch was changing as fast 
as I could tune and when I finally gave up it was still changing. The bad 
thing was no body else knew the pitch was changing. The music director and 
congregation thought it sounded "real good". 
I suspect the problem was some strange humidity problem.
     Also since you are a Florida boy....I have just returned from a 
wonderful time at Orange Beach, Florida in a condo on the beach.  I was 
wondering as I enjoyed that ocean breeze, how do you keep the salty air from 
contaminating the metal piano parts . Is this a problem in your area and if 
so,  how do you approach that problem.
Tommy Black
Decatur, Ala.