<!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 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am not an expert with radiant heat. However, the more consistent you can keep the environment surrounding the piano, the better. I agree with you that it would be better to leave the area of the piano free of the radiant heat source. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I should think that a grand piano without a full DC (with bottom cover) installation placed over a radiant heat source would likely have a rather short lifespan.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>I just had a phone call from a music studio that is installing electric coil radiant heating in the floor. She wondered about the advisability of putting the coils directly under where the piano will be placed.  I'm thinking it may be better to avoid it, but I should defer to the greater expertise of this list. <BR><BR>For some reason, although this question has been bugging them for some time, they only now decided to call me to ask... now that the workers are there putting the tiles in the floor... so time is of the essence.  <BR><BR>If I don't get a definitive response from the many wiser persons here, I think I would advise them to avoid an area for about a one-foot perimeter around the piano.<BR><BR>TIA,<BR>Paul<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>