<html><head><base href="x-msg://202/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Marshall, consider buying a hygrometer to measure the humidity when you tune the piano. You don't have to guess the humidity outside-versus-<div>inside. The one sold by Dampp- Chaser costs about $45 and will also measure the high and the low. </div><div><br></div><div> I always carry one in my tool box and when I suspect a changing humidity issue in the room, I leave it in the piano. The next time I check the piano I can read what the humidity high and low during that period of time.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Marshall Gisondi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="Arial">Hi William & John,</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">Thanks for your helpful advice. So am I correct then, the humidity outside will still have an affect even if the temp inside is pretty evey i.e ac is on? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">John the piano did exactly what you said, unisons were decent, but other things went sour. As for charging them, I did charge a little. This is a church and school with 10 pianos roughly. So I billed them for a "touch up" tuning. I felt I had to do this because I do use public transit often when I tune there sometimes with the cab, tip and train even with my discount card on the train the total one way can be over 10 bucks. I hope I'm not wrong in trying to make a profit. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br><font size="3" face="Arial">I was really worried when this happened. I know we improve as we go along in this field, but I was worried that my skill was slipping or that something was wrong. I almost felt panic. So to repeat, the humidity outside can still have an affect on a piano inside even if the temp inside is pretty even? How does the piano feel the change in humidity outside then if the room in this case a fellowship doesn't have windows? We've had our share of up and downs with weather here onthe east coast, rain humidity, a little dryer/cooler earlier this month and then warmer and more humid again. In fact when I return next month, I'm going to check it again becase we're supposed to get cool again this weekend and maybe warm up again. Thanks again guys. I hope youu can ease my mind over this this.</font><br><font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall</font><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician</span></span></font></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Marshall's Piano Service</span></span></font></span><br><strong><em><font size="3" face="Garamond"><a href="mailto:pianotune05@hotmail.com">pianotune05@hotmail.com</a></font></em></strong><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">215-510-9400</span></span></font></span><br><strong><em><font size="3" face="Garamond"><a href="http://www.phillytuner.com/" target="_blank">www.phillytuner.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></em></strong><br><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.pianotuningschool.org/" target="_blank">www.pianotuningschool.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vancouver, WA<br><br><br><br><br></span></span></font></span><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; "></span></font></span></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>