More on soundboard crown

[Farrell]

90%+ of homes in Florida range from around 75% RH in the summer to at the lowest around 35% RH in the winter. The modern Florida home is one of the kinder environments for pianos I think.

Now for those few clients of mine that do not have air conditioning .................

Oh, and the cruise ships. I tune a bunch of Yamaha C3s on two large Carnival cruise ships. The floors where the pianos are have no openings to the outside. The AC runs 24/7. These pianos are incredibly stable.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: More on soundboard crown


> Hi Sarah,
> 
> Steam you say? How about 4% to 84%? Even under those extremes a complete
> Damppchaser system *can* keep pitch within 2 cents on any note for 12 to 36
> months (depending on the instrument)
> 
> I can see non wood soundboard assemblys with mason and hamelin screw
> stringer technology that may result in a piano that needs very little service.
> 
> At 10:42 AM 8/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Terry,
> >
> >Also, consider your market.  You Floridians live in steam.  Wouldn't it be
> >great to have a soundboard that doesn't "care" about the humidity?  Think of
> >pianos by the poolside.  Think of cruise ships!  ;-)  Consider the larger
> >commercial potential.  A means for replicating wood's high frequency loss
> >would certaintly be worthy of a patent, and the idea could be sold to the
> >manufacturers.  We could kill the killer octave!  ;-)
> >
> >Seriously, would you be interested in such a thing????
> >
> >Peace,
> >Sarah
> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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