Disklavier

I have two Damppchasers, one on a normal U1, the other on on a U1 DKV (MPX100II).

The Damppchaser on the U1 is inside the piano, but the one for the DKV goes on the OUTSIDE of the soundboard, in the back. No way would anyone put a tank of water in a complex electronic device like a DKV. There are two different types of Damppchasers - look on their website.

The internal DC has been very effective. I went from four tunings a year to one every 18 months! I'm not sure if external DC is as effective as the external one. I've only had the DKV for a year. It went out of tune in a few months, but that could have been because the piano had not been tuned for years before first tuning. Strangely, I was about to have it tuned, but it seems to be more in tune lately and doesn't bother me.

Sam 
www.keyboardcollective.com






> On Nov 29, 2014, at 8:22 PM, ROBERT LEBLANC r_leblanc@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> My house's relative humidity during the winter months is far from ideal for a piano.  This is a result of having to keep the furnace humidifier turned down to about 20% to avoid condensation build-up on the windows. 
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> To address the chronic low humidity levels, I'm considering having a Dampp Chaser installed on my Disklavier upright MX1Z.  I would really appreciate hearing what others here may think about this.
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> I assume there's room inside the piano for the Dampp Chaser components.  As for the Disklavier internal electronic components, I can't imagine exposing them to 'moderate' humidity levels should pose any significant problems.
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