Hi Ron, So be the first to install with bottom covers (and Edwards string covers) and back covers. Also add a "howler" (i.e. when unit is unplugged it buzzes) to the install. Charge top dollar and go for the high end. As you already do in all other areas! I have many clients with DC units that are properly maintained. It has been well over a year since I came across an unplugged dc unit (touch wood). I understand the Edward's string covers can be "peeled back" far enough to just expose the tuning pins--making waiting before tuning unnecessary. At 09:07 AM 1/22/2007 -0600, you wrote: > >So I hear, and it would certainly be a welcome change from >what I'm used to. Heck, I've *always* been willing to be >spoiled. But I've not sold, nor even seen locally, a D-C >installation with either back or bottom cover. In the unlikely >event that there is a D-C at all, and it is against all odds >still plugged in and has water in the tank, the over the top >cover just means I get to wait for the strings to settle down >from the temperature difference before I can tune it, and the >low tenors are still out by more than 4c at that. > > >Just for the record, I think the D-C system is terrific. The >problems tend to be associated with the willingness of the >piano owners to spend the time, money, and brain cells to >listen to the education attempts, see the value of the system, >and be willing to spend the money to install it and the time >maintaining it. I don't think I've tuned a D-C equipped piano >that I haven't at least once found unplugged or dry. For too >many of them, this is the expected condition. For the most >part, I find people will more likely put up with 10c-20c pitch >changes twice a year and suffer the result than to buy a >humidity control system that they have to maintain in any way. >I don't get it, but that's what I find here. The other side of >that is those who have purchased the system, and can't seem to >grasp the concept of how it works, despite repeated >description/quiz attempts. They seem to think the unit >contains tuning, and is to be plugged in only to refill the >piano when the tuning gets "noticeably" rough or they receive >some sort of cosmic vibe telling them it's time. And those >lights are blinking again, but they still don't know what that >means - if they notice, or don't unplug it to make the lights >stop. Surely all these people don't work at the DMV, but maybe >so. Again, I don't get it. >Ron N Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner
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