While I'm not eager to call my clients names ("stupid"), I have certainly seen it happen. There are a variety of types of room humidifiers on the market. The type which is most liable to abuse are the various vaporizers. Some of these emit a warm steam. Others blow out a cool but visible mist. I've seen the result of these positioned directly beneath the soundboard and it ain't pretty. The excess moisture bleaches the spruce and accelerates soundboard cracks and rib separations despite the misinformed customers' good intentions. And I have seen the the cool mist pointed toward the strings with little regard for the day to day relative humidity.<div>
Sometimes the person who purchases and sets up the humidifier is not the one I spoke to at the time of the tuning.</div><div>Patrick Draine</div><div>from the Northeast where the temp and RH dropped into the teens a couple days ago; right now the outside temp is the mid 50s and pouring rain (possibly not your climatic range)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2008 8:47 AM, AlliedPianoCraft <<a href="mailto:AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com">AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial">Come on
now...........do you think anyone would be that stupid as to "blast the mist
right into the piano"! It's the technicians job to instruct the client on the
proper use of any equipment you install or recommend that they
use.</font></div></div></blockquote></div></div>