Hi, Ursula, If the are no visible signs of damage then that's the place to start. I have a related story. I had trouble with a 7ft Bosendorfer with wild swings from tuning to tuning. The customer said that humidity swings were not an issue in his house. I installed a dehumdifier. The problem improved by 50%. Shortly afterward they moved. At the new location the piano was as solid as a rock. The moral of the story -- don't believe the customer, use Dampp Chaser's meter that records the high and low humidity. ---Tom Gorley In a message dated 5/4/10 11:27:02 AM, ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com writes: > Hi List, > > I have a customer with a 40 year old Baldwin spinet. When she acquired it, > the owner told her, it had never been tuned. This piano is very unstable > on 2 tunings a year. > > Does any one of you have experience with a climate control system in this > kind of a case. > I put climate control systems into other pianos with good results, but am > not quite sure, whether it is justified in such a case, whether the tuning > would become much more stable. Is this throwing good money after a hopeless > piano? > > Thanks, > Ursula > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100504/d6a456b3/attachment.htm>
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