Yeah and William had to tell us all to come there because the climate varies so much! See you soon William!!! From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Monroe Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:44 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business) Oh, great! I can see the newspaper article now, "Piano Technicians from around the world flock to WI in search of unstable pianos to tune................ WRM On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote: Gee, maybe we all need to move over there??? :) From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Monroe Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:52 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Climate Control (was: Repeat Business) Hee, hee, Try WI. I have a pretty advanced weather station on my property, and regularly monitor the outdoor RH (and contrast that with thin indoor). I don't have central AC in the house, but it stays much more constant than outdoors. Yesterday, the outdoor RH went from 92% at 8am, to 56% at 6pm, to 89% at 10pm. It doesn't always change this fast, or frequent, but daily fluctuations are often in the 30% range. Indoor fluctuations (running some window AC units occasionally) are more on the order of 10% - 15%. William R. Monroe On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote: You know, it all depends on the client, piano and location. By location, I mean, what state we reside in.humidity fluctuations. Here, I can tune a piano today and by next month (or sooner) it is already flat, or sharp, but it is changing already because of the continual variations of temperature and humidity. Today, the RH was 48 %. Last week when it was sweltering hot, it was right around 80%. Tuning yearly, which I do like, I find them on pitch and close to being in tune but if it is a piano that is used often then obviously, we need to tune it more often. I like to say that " Michigan is a great place to live if you're a piano tuner. The weather changes so often that you're screwed no matter what. Today it'll rain, tomorrow we need the heat turned on, the next day, the A/C.." Basically, I like at least a yearly tuning to keep screws tight, hammers spaced and to catch other piddly crap before it turns into more serious piddly crap. Jer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100824/e9c20cf6/attachment.htm>
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