Dean, may I gently and respectfully suggest that you may be a bit mistaken in your understanding of what heat is? Heat is a measure of total kinetic energy of molecules. It is not a "thing" in its own right. Best regards, David. On 11/12/2012 19:00, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > Radiant heat works not by warming the air, though there is some of that, but > by radiating the heat, duh.;-) Objects with mass in view of the radiant > heat source absorb the heat and began to warm in temperature. The closer the > object to the source, the more heat is absorbed. A piano with lots of mass > sitting very close to the source will absorb lots of heat. While air, with > negligible mass, will not absorb much heat. So measuring the air's > temperature will not be any kind of indicator as to how much heat the piano > is getting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121211/7d8da3e6/attachment.htm>
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