thirsty piano

Okay. When the water light goes on the Steinway's humidifier is thirsty. After one week it happened and I responded. It's easy. More and more, I see people taking up the challenge and closing the lid when they are finished using it.

Pianos don't grow on trees.... I'll end with a thank you for helping to climate control the Steinway. February, by the way, they say is the driest month for pianos.

getting Steinway up to grade

New thing: last week our Steinway got a humidifier installed. The old one was taken out. Looks like it was dead for many years, Dawn the tuner thought. Any wonder the tuning wasn't holding!

So, now, we have to take seriously closing the piano, especially the top lid, so the humidity works INSIDE the piano and does not vainly try to humidify the whole sanctuary. This is standard operating procedure for the care and feeding of pianos. We're fortunate the church last fall accepted the slightly larger budget line item so this could be done. Thanks, Carol.

I'll let the two pics tell the rest of the story.