[pianotech] Hydroceel

[Gregor _]

I think better than a damp chaser is the idea to keep the whole room humid enough. A damp chaser provides humidity inside of the piano, but the outer side of the soundboard is still in a dry environment. And extreme dryness is not good for the human bronchi and skin, too. But in terms of efficiency the damp chaser might be better. I use a Venta airwasher LW44 in my shop which costs about 270 Euro:

http://www.venta-airwasher.com/

This winter I had days when RH would have went down under 40 % without that airwasher, but the airwasher pushed it up to 48 % within one day. No problem to provide my 70 square meter shop with 10 liter of water (or even more) every day if needed. But as I mentioned before: the region where I live does not suffer from extreme dryness. On the other hand: I have a client who lives in a house with floor heating and ceilings which are 8 meters high! He has a Venta and still it was too dry in winter. He decided to buy a second Venta. That worked.

Gregor

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piano technician - tuner - dealer
Münster, Germany
www.weldert.de




Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:15:40 -0400
From: zeno.wood at gmail.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Hydroceel

Garrett-

Neither can I.  It seems they're widely used in Europe.  There's also something similar for string instruments, the dampit (www.dampits.com), which I've been told is very good.  Before anyone starts screaming, I'll say that I'm NOT advocating the use of rubber or plastic tubing with sponges inside as an effective method of compensating for low humidity in the northeastern region of the United States, nor am I advocating the use of beer (except applied internally), mason jars filled with water, or any other precariously placed liquid as a means of protecting one's piano from the ravages of low humidity.


It's just interesting, that's all I'm saying, and a client wanted one.  Tha's all.

Regards,
Zeno

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Zeno,
I can't imagine that Hydroceel is anywhere near as effective as a

Dampp-Chaser Climate control system.

Kindest Regards,

Garret 















Garrett,

Neither can I.  But they're widely used in Europe.  There's also something similar for string instruments, the Dampit (www.dampits.com).  Before anyone starts screaming, I'll go on the record as saying that the


-Zeno

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Zeno,
I can't imagine that Hydroceel is anywhere near as effective as a
Dampp-Chaser Climate control system.

Kindest Regards,

Garret 



 		 	   		  
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