Klarinet Archive - Posting 001021.txt from 1997/12

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: humidifiers
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 15:26:30 -0500

David H Eby wrote:
>
> How about room humidifiers? We have a piano, an organ, a violin, a clarinet,
> and a classical guitar, and we started to use a humidifier for the music room.
> It keeps it at about 22% humidity. This was suggested by the piano tuner, who
> said that if the air gets too dry we can have problems with the piano sound
> board. I think as long as we use that, the other instruments can just stay out
> in the open, and benefit from it. Am I wrong?

I have a whole house humidifier (primarily to keep the heating bills
lower :)
but it does keep the wooden instruments in better shape - we have a
grand
piano, various clarinets (presently), and guitars in the house. The
piano
keeps its tune, the guitars don't rattle, and the clarinets stay in good
shape. The trumpet doesn't seem to care :)

Considering what the north part of the U.S. goes through in temperature
variations, a humidifier properly set up can't hurt.
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