Piano room humidity min/max
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Because the room has the half-height 4 pane window above the window seat and two full height 4 panes as well, it is flooded with light. The piano is on the North wall.
We live on a hill which is often windy, and foggy. Two days this week we were living in cloudy drizzle and the RH was around 60-65.
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Those doors are spectacular!
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@pique said in Piano room humidity min/max:
you absolutely do not ever want to let the humidity drop below 30 or get above 60. I personally freak out if it is below 35 or above 55
Why not above 60%?
When I got a sticky key last year a RH reading in the room was 78% (though of doubtful accuracy, probably +/- 5). -
Yes wtg, that's our golden sounding Bluthner which has not been tuned since 2019 and also moved 300 miles north.
Yet according to my digital guitar tuner (and ear when playing along e.g. with Stephanie Trick) it is still in tune. But it's going to get TLC very soon.The grand piano search will probably take significant time, don't hold your breath, especially as the house still needs thousands spent on it.
Steve, thanks, the doors were installed by a pro carpenter, a cousin of mine who took a week to make a frame etc and fit them... perfectly. It's a real pleasure watching someone with traditional skills.
Pique, that's one of the new dehumidifiers placed (temporarily) to the left of the piano. Good point about strings and other metal bits like the tuning pegs potentially rusting. You obviously take great care over your piano.
The RH advice found on the internet is mostly about stability. Basically "keep the RH as constant as possible", one adding "anywhere between 40-70% depending on where you live".
I've just found the advice "don't use a humidifier blowing steam directly onto the piano as it could cause rust".
Guitars apparently like 50-55%.So I'll aim for a narrower 50-60% range.
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[quote]You obviously take great care over your piano.[/quote]
ahahahahahahaha! (I can't find a rothflol emoji)
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Fantastic, you wrote a book about your hobby, what, like learning to play and then the search to find 'the one', and building a mini-concert hall home extension
Was it a best seller?
But your fallboard, what's really written there?
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Kudos for choosing a Grotrian, I liked a couple I found to play back in 2003 and they made my top 5, though can't find any new in the uk today.
Guessing you visited Germany to shop.I'm obviously not quite as obsessive as you but in Durham Cathedral a fortnight ago I saw the stewards uncovering and unlocking their grand piano for a cello recital.
They moved away to chat and I couldn't resist ...
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Kudos for choosing a Grotrian, I liked a couple I found to play back in 2003 and they made my top 5, though can't find any new in the uk today.
Guessing you visited Germany to shop.I'm obviously not quite as obsessive as you but in Durham Cathedral a fortnight ago I saw the stewards uncovering and unlocking their grand piano for a cello recital.
They moved away to chat and I couldn't resist ...
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@wtg What would have been appropriate in an ancient English Norman Cathedral?
Hmmm, French national anthem
?@AndyD said in Piano room humidity min/max:
@wtg What would have been appropriate in an ancient English Norman Cathedral?
Hmmm, French national anthem?Earlier in the thread you said you like to play along with Stephanie Trick, so I thought maybe you'd give that Boston a workout with something like this:
Link to video back at ya....
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