<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Terry:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Central Mortgage and Housing, a = canadian Crown Corporation, recommends RH levels according to outside temperature. = In a warm place like Fl, 72% shouldn't be too bad. At 10 degrees below zero, = 30 is recommended. Dryness is a real problem during the long winter months of = forced air heating in Canada. Without humidity control, you are open to colds, = flu, bronchial problems - and cracked soundboards. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Case in point. A good friend down = North, Northern BC that is, has a Hamilton, which I have been tuning about six years. = The soundboard has a little buzz sometimes, not bad, that she can live with. I noticed electricity in the air, and asked her what her = humidity level was. She didn't know. She had never heard of it. She has no = humidifier in the furnace, and no auxiliary humidification. She is a single mother = with children. I asked her if her family usually gets a lot of colds and = bronchial problems during the winter. Yes! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Her humidity level is likely about at = least 80%. No wonder the buzz in the piano. No wonder the chest colds and flu. = Therefore it is obvious what she should do:  a new Damp-Chaser system!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kenny Finlayson, = RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>