<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> Confused !!!   I thought that the A/C took moisture out of the air, therefore making things feel cooler.<br> If in fact that is the case, how come the piano goes sharp with less moisture in the air, thus lower<br> humidity ??   What am I not understanding.? <br> <br> Carl / Winnipeg<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Robert Finley wrote:<br> <blockquote cite="mid008b01c68456$9b00c290$6a0abd42@your46e94owx6a" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name="GENERATOR"> <o:SmartTagType name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <style>  </style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello Michelle. What a coincidence to read your message because a similar problem occurred here today. This morning a friend of mine who is a flute player came to my house to do some recordings with me. She asked me if I tuned my piano to A440 (which I said I did the night before) because she thought the piano was sharp and the tuning adjustment on her flute was at the end of the range. The air conditioning was at full blast in my house. I have noticed that the piano was going gradually sharp. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Robert Finley</font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a title="michelle@cdaustin.com" href="mailto:michelle@cdaustin.com">Michelle Smith</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:25 PM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Tuning fluxuations </div> <div><br> </div> <div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hello all.  Curiosity question for you.  I have a Steinway S here at the house that was tuned to A440 in February.  We’ve since turned on the air conditioner and the piano has gone sharp about 12 cents.  This wouldn’t be a problem except that I have a flute student who can’t push her head joint in any farther to be in tune with my piano.  I’m probably going to retune the piano because I don’t think I can stand it any longer.   (I hate to mess up an otherwise good tuning that was done by someone far more experienced than myself.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">So my question is this.  When you come to a piano that is sharp this time of year, do you try to lower the pitch to A440 knowing that it will probably drop significantly when the heat is turned back on in the winter?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for your words of wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Michelle Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Student Tuner<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Bastrop</span></font></st1:City><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>