<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font size="2"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">My biggest issue with the complete system is lack of attention to keep it full of  water. This is a big reason I find it  a waste of money unless someone is dedicated to monitoring it and understands how it works.</font></font> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; "><font size="2">Just my 2 cents worth</font></div> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; "><font size="2">Dale</font><br> <br> <div style="font-size: 10pt; clear: both; "><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica; color: black; ">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Larry Fisher RPT <larry_fisher@pdxtuner.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 6:33 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] Tacoma, WA<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_d002869f-607a-4157-b218-a3de6f79733e"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <div>I have to agree with Ryan.  I’ve always felt the tendency for a piano to stay in tune better when there’s a DC installed.  I’m about 100 miles south of Tacoma and I’ve seen some installations on pianos with in view of the coast as well as some in the middle of Portland.  They all perform quite nicely with a properly serviced DC complete system.  It may rain all winter around here but the heats on and the windows are closed.  This dries out a house as long as there aren’t a lot of exterior doors being opened and closed repeatedly.  Our summers are dry as a bone and all the windows are open.  It’s hard to fathom but I think the interior ambient humidity is higher when the lawn turns brown.  Currently at 6 AM the humidity is 90 percent and the lawn has green spots where the weeds are struggling for survival.</div> <div> </div> <div>A customer called in August asking why he has to keep adding so much water to his system.  “Your Dampp-Chaser system is doing it’s job” was my reply.</div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </font>