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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Leslie W
Bartlett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:23 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> A chance to rant a
bit.....<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Can any of those who've been around awhile.....................
make some cogent comments about how much sooner a piano with radical seasonal
pitch swings will have the pin block go bad than in a very stable
environment? I do a school district- getting to be a drag- but they
recently have been turning all climate control off for nights, weekends, and
of course holidays. One school having had an infestation of mold last
year, these pianos which were 5-15 cents sharp in the fall and now up to 40
cents flat. NO I am not that bad a tuner! But today I
tuned one of those horrible things, a GH1, and the tuning pins were so loose I
could move them easily with small finger- and this piano is no more than five
years old. I want to have some information for the school
district in this regard. OTOH, I tend to like a certain
climate control unit which uses a cheap cool mist humidifier, and I know that
if they put these things in a school, each will be stolen in short
order..... I've put the drying part on several pianos, but
this year because they have gone to such ridiculous lengths to dry out the
air, the bars seldom work. Instead, the pianos are impossibly flat.</DIV>
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<DIV>So, thoughts would be appreciated.</DIV>
<DIV>les bartlett<SPAN class=516503602-01022007><FONT
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<DIV><SPAN class=516503602-01022007> <FONT
face=Arial>I'm not saying it will, but it CAN, and has, happened on some
pianos within a year. One of my school districts ruined a 7 foot Baldwin
grand by storing it right next to the radiators at the back of the
stage -- the soundboard cracked in several places and the
pinblock dried out to the point of needing 6/0 pins or a new block. They
ended up buying a new piano and building a special cage for it off in the
wings. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=516503602-01022007> <FONT
face=Arial>--David Nereson,
RPT</FONT> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>