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<font face="Arial">Jim, I am very much enjoying your contributions
on this topic. The matter of popular perception/received wisdom
versus published evidence base (or lack thereof) is always
interesting. Thank you for sharing your experience with your own
Chickering.<br>
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To be factored into the discussion is whether electric infloor
heating may affect uprights differently from grands. In a grand
the soundboard and plate are obviously parallel with the floor,
and at a distance of over 30" from the floor. Presumably the
soundboard and plate get evenly heated. With the upright piano
the soundboard, plate (as much plate as there is in my particular
case, an old English overdamper) obviously graduates in distance
from the heat source, the floor. Going, I suppose, from casters in
contact with the heat source, through the bottom edge of the
soundboard perhaps 4" from the floor, to the top edge, maybe about
40" from the floor.</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">I have emailed the owner to ask if he knows
anything about the heat differential between floor level and key
height. Overall, I feel fairly sanguine that the electric infloor
heating will not damage the piano. Thanks again to everyone for
this interesting discussion!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
David.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/12/2012 15:08,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:mailman.4402.1355411300.4133.pianotech@ptg.org"
type="cite">I find a striking disconnect between technician
reports on the aggressiveness of infloor heat regarding piano
seasonal stability and piano soundboard/pinlock health, and both
the technical research and on site installed experience gathered
by the heating industry professionals and researchers on these
systems. Over the last 20 yrs the in-floor systems have exhibited
significant advantages over traditional systems. In-floor systems
have proven to be more comfortable, gentle, and allergen friendly
than any of the traditional heating options, providing even
temperatures, much less vertical temp striation, and allowing the
occupied spaces to be kept at lower temperatures(thus easier to
maintain higher RH) than their convective/forced counterparts. <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://legalett.ca/Radiant_Floor_Heating_in_Theory_and_Practice.pdf">http://legalett.ca/Radiant_Floor_Heating_in_Theory_and_Practice.pdf</a>
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<br>
In the spirit of taking the information where it takes us, I'll
start, with my own experience.
<br>
<br>
My own grand, Chickering122, 5' grand, my own new re-manufacture
(new rib crowned board, block, the works), full DC, floor length
cover always covering instrument when I'm not playing, in my
living room with in-floor heat.
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