
| The wood in your piano needs a certain amount of water. However having too much or not enough can both have damaging effects. Not enough water and your soundboard may crack, wood pieces can dry up and separate at the joints. This also has a direct effect on your pianos tuning, causing most pianos to go flat. Too much water and your pianos wooden parts tend to swell and the next thing you know your keys become sluggish or they stick. Of course your tuning will go off because your soundboard will swell and put more pressure on the bridges which in turn puts pressure on the strings. Most Pianos are made to exist at 42% relative humidity. However because of seasonal changes and home heating and air conditioning, this is rarely the case. In fact the worst thing is that your piano fluctuates in it's relative humidity and this up and down swinging of humidity causes most piano problems. Church and school pianos suffer the most as these buildings are at one time fully occupied with people, raising the humidity. Then the buildings are empty, lowering the humidity. The best cure? The installation of a Dampp-Chaser piano life-saver system. This system will maintain your piano's relative humidity levels at 42% plus or minus 5%. When I tune your piano I will check your humidity level . I will also give a free information packet that will give you more information on the system so you can decide whether or not you can benefit from the system and whether or not you want to prolong your piano's Life. Also exclusively from Pianomansaint.com. When I install your system you not only get a GREAT price break but a FREE bottle of Treatment and a FREE pad change once a year if done with a tuning. Thats at least a $20 saving each year. Call 866-93-PIANO |