This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In all of my sales pitches for this system, I don't think that question has ever come up. I use the brochure DampChaser supplies (these are really cheap and highly effective. Everyone should order 100 of these). I show them the components, what they look like installed, the picture showing the water bucket filling it. And I focus my pitch on my 20 years of experience: how well these systems work It is not possible to affect the moisture only on one part of the soundboard. If you dry one area, moisture will migrate from all over the board until it stabilizes. That is the nature of wood: it wicks water. That aside, I would focus the sales presentation on the fact that the system works, that is why he should buy it, not because he understands how it works. I tell potential customers that my experience in the field proves over and over that the system works incredibly well and is very reliable. They don't have to understand how it works, only that it does, and they can trust your years of experience and the collective experience of technicians you are associated with, which amounts to thousands of units in the field. Incidentally, of the scores that I've installed and serviced in the last 20+ years, I had my first bad humidistat yesterday on a system that is over eight years old. I think that is pretty remarkable testimony on the reliability of these systems. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:38 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Ultimate Damp-chaser In regards to Dampp-chaser installation in vertical pianos: I've encountered this question more than once from clients: "Can the system really be effective if its only exposed to one side of the soundboard". My usual reply is that even though the back of the soundboard is exposed to outside air, maintaining a more constant environment inside the piano will indeed keep the soundboard from swelling and contracting to the degree that it does with no system in place. I sometimes still get a skeptical look; Any better explanations out there? Has anybody studied the effect of a barrier cloth on the back of the piano to improve the efficiency of the system. I have heard that the wool string covers that Laroy Edward's daughter makes for grand pianos can measurably improve the function of a Damp-chaser. I have thought from time to time that perhaps the ultimate system would be to install 2 Dampp-chasers, one on each side of the soundboard. Has anybody actually attempted this? Does this make sense? Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Pianova Piano Service Olympia, WA _____ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/50x/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/ne w_mail/static/efficiency.html> - 50x more storage than other providers! ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e2/c5/ad/43/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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