Ron, I add this to elements for my intelligence. A lot of air movement in forced air heating would dissipate my hypothetical "micro climat" around the piano anyway. Terry, the small external humidifier would still controlled by a humidistat inside the piano. Gerald, in your client's home, it is positive : is there forced air heating outlet near? What are the minimum and maximum values in that house around the year if not for the humidifier ? Allan Sutton, m.mus. RPT www.pianotechniquemontreal.com 2010/6/20 Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> > Good point Ron. I forget that some people actually HEAT their homes..... > > Terry in Tampa (HOT Tampa!) > > > On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > > allan at sutton.net wrote: >> >>> Thank you Terry, That precision : "different pianos, different solutions" >>> seems very appropriate to me. >>> >> >> I pretty much agree with Terry. Big seasonal (or weekly) humidity swings >> are a major accelerator to aging, and stability is much more important than >> the absolute number. >> >> >> Another question : Do many agree that a small external humidifier near >>> the piano will help significantly in adding some humidity to every part of >>> the piano when needed (soundboard and pinblock and action, in a grand >>> piano), albeit as a second choice to whole room conditioning ? >>> >> >> It depends on the heating system. With something like room contained >> convection or radiant heating, an auxiliary humidifier will, or can, help. >> With a forced air system whatever humidity you put into any given room is >> sucked out and distributed throughout the house. So unless your humidifier >> in building wide a forced air system is going through eight gallons or so a >> day, it's probably not going to help much. >> Ron N >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100620/aa617c8a/attachment.htm>
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