This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_005A_01C5FCD1.04EE2ED0 I encountered something similar this past August, during a spell of particularly high humidity. The piano was a recently rebuilt S&S B with Renner shanks, and although they are usually fine I found that on the day I was there many of them were seized right up (less than one swing). The owner has a high-end home recording studio with a session scheduled for the next morning, and I had luckily stopped that afternoon to check the piano just to make sure that nothing other than tuning would be necessary. We removed the action to his finished basement, put it next to the dehumidifier, and when I returned in the morning to tune, all was fine. - Mark Dierauf -----Original Message----- From: Jason Kanter [mailto:jkanter@rollingball.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:55 PM To: 'Pianotech' Subject: FT.com article A lovely article from today's Financial Times of London (ft.com) http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1b588c30-6859-11da-bfce-0000779e2340.html Peruvian piano tuner's alternative medicine for a Steinway grand By Marguerite Wolff Published: December 9 2005 02:00 | Last updated: December 9 2005 02:00 >From Ms Marguerite Wolff. Sir, One of the dreads of a concert pianist is to face playing on a piano affected by humidity. The piano can be good, bad or indifferent, small or large, the effect is the same; sluggish sound and enormous difficulty in playing rapid and filigree finger work. I have just returned from Peru giving concerts and was going to give a concert at the residence of the British ambassador, playing an exacting programme of Chopin-Liszt. It was a beautiful sunny day. Everything seemed perfect - a delightful, co-operative ambassador, beautiful music room, above all a Steinway grand that had been tuned and a humidifier used in the room. But alas, there was tremendous humidity. I was in despair. The tuner returned and I begged him to use all his skills and time. He then took the entire action out of the piano and put it on a stone step on the terrace in the sunshine for a few few hours, and said: "That will do more than anything I can do." That night at the concert the piano played like a dream. Marguerite Wolff, London W1B 1NS ------=_NextPart_001_005A_01C5FCD1.04EE2ED0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c2/3f/d3/b3/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_005A_01C5FCD1.04EE2ED0-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 102 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/82/0a/52/b5/attachment.gif ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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