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humidity control for Mason & Hamlin grands

  • 1.  humidity control for Mason & Hamlin grands

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 01-24-2025 14:50

    Greetings,

    Wanting to put a Piano Life Saver System (the piano-mounted humidity control system formerly known as Dampp-Chaser) on a Mason & Hamlin grand, which has a Centripetal Tension Resonator. A colleague reports that one such piano he services has had the CTR rust due to the humidification part of the system. This, of course, is collateral damage that I would prefer to avoid!

    Have any of you had a similar experience with regard to a rusty CTR? And if so, did this happen with the water tank(s) suspended from support rods mounted ABOVE the beams? Below the beams?

    Thanks,

    Alan



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    Alan Eder, RPT
    Herb Alpert School of Music
    California Institute of the Arts
    Valencia, CA
    661.904.6483
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