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Hi Z!,<br>
Both of our concert
grands have to the floor fitted tarps, that are heavily quilted, it
helps quite a bit. But there is no real way to over come those
concerts in the park, stability type things. Minimizing is
the best you can hope for. Besides the heavy tarp, laying two
moving blankets on the strings inside the piano seems to help. But
I may be fooling myself on that one.<br>
Insulate and protect, in the best way possible.<br>
Regards Roger.<br>
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At 07:07 PM 8/19/01 -0400, you wrote: <br>
<font face="arial" size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>Hi
Everyone!</font><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>How hot can a piano get before you run
into more serious problems than changes in the tuning? What are
some of the problems people have observed after a piano got
hot?</font><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Over the summer I tuned at a couple of
festivals on what were otherwise beautiful summer days here in Detroit
but must have been nightmares for the pianos. As usual, I was asked
to tune first thing in the morning despite the stage manager's full
knowledge that the tuning will be seriously "altered" by the
time the featured artist was going to play. Over the course of all
the set changes, the pianos were often relegated to some out-of-the-way
corner of the stage where they sat out in full sunlight, often wearing
black naugahyde covers. Those pianos were probably hot enough to
roast a fat steak by the time I came back to them to "touch them
up" just before the performances. (The stage managers have
been told repeatedly not to leave the pianos out in full sunlight for any
length of time ....)</font><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Since then, those pianos have been doing
one-night stands all over metro Detroit and I haven't crossed paths with
any of them yet since their sunbathing sessions. Nor have I heard
any comments from the other technicians who have serviced them since
then. Meanwhile I came to yet another concert rental recently which
had numerous loose lead weights in the damper system, and I'm wondering
if that one also got a good "sunburn" at some point over the
summer.</font><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Thanks in advance --</font><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Z! Reinhardt RPT<br>
Ann Arbor MI<br>
<font size=2><a href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</a></font><br>
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