With my own eyeballs, I have seen a semi-trailer full of new Brand S pianos parked in a no-shade asphalt parking lot in Tampa, Florida for a full week in August - heavy rain most days and 93 degrees in the shade (the week prior to the yearly University sale). Talk about climate uncontrol! There is NO excuse for this. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:51 AM Subject: Re: Hygrometer > Hi Dale... > > I think whats been said is that the shop climate is not > controlled. I dont think anyone has said anything about > climate control in the hot box. Perhaps a small detail > really given the extremes in Humidity in New York, but > still.. So.... anyone seen Steinways Hotbox ? > > To take all this a step further.... I wonder how much > difference it makes with such climate control, given the > fact that from the first minute an instrument is place on > the trucks to ship out, or at least from the first minute > they are on the floor of some store... the climate is > probably just as uncontrolled as most other places. > > I mean ok... say NY Steinway installs state of the art > building climate control systems, super seal their > intruments and ship them off to some Jacksonville store > where the Humidity is 90 % at 90 F. Seems to me you have > just delayed the inevitable.... or what ? > > RicB > > > > It certainly does seem strange to me that in any > > > factory relying on compression crowning in this age of > > > technology would want to insure a more uniform > > > temp./R.H. levels to srictly control emc. When I visited > > > Mason& Hamlin the hot box temp. humidity and air > > > circulatuion was meticously maintained for even EMC > > > levels prior to pressing. Mason and Hamlin is rib > > > crowning their boards by the way. > > > > ...Dale Erwin > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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