Right Humidity for the Player Piano
By Thomas Henden
I have a Weber player piano, that currently is sent away for repinning and restringing, because of the too low humidity the previous owners exposed it to. I plan to treat it much more carefully, by adding moisture, especially in the wintertime, when the air is dry here where I live in Oslo.
The problem is what unit I should use for this. The most advanced ones, where you can regulate the %-tage of humidity are really expencive, and the cheaper ones may very well fog the windows, when accidentally set too high.
Also the room where the piano lives is not very large (appr. 20 sq metres), so a moisturizer, will probably be difficult to set to a low enough level.
The moisture level jumps up and down between 50 and 80% because of poor ventilation, and changing conditions when someone hangs up laundry, or the sun heats up at the opposite of the room.
A piano tuner once suggested that it would be OK to put one or two jars in the bottom of the piano, and make sure they are filled with water every week or every 14th day.
Do anyone have suggestions to solve this problem, or comments to that advice I got.
Sincerely Thomas Henden, Oslo, Norway.
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(Message sent Tue 24 Sep 1996, 16:46:54 GMT, from time zone GMT.) |
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