Perhaps I have been hanging out with accordeonists too long, but when things get very dry around here in the wintertime one approach is to take the accordeon case (after you have left the instrument somewhere else!) and put it in the room with you when showering every week or so (not in the stall, of course...) it seems to do a good job raising the general humidity of the instrument. I tried it once or twice last February when my gurdy tangents were particularly loose, and it didn't seem to help much.
-Robert Resnik (overjoyed that he can talk about this with people who understand!) On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Melissa Kacalanos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My hg likes humidity too, so to give it some humidity even in dry weather, > I keep a wet dampit in the key box. A dampit is an expensive sponge you can > get in instrument stores. I got one meant for guitar, but they have different > sizes. You can fit one in the case if it doesn't fit in the keybox. > > If the tangents still spin, you can also take them out, fold a very small > strip of paper under the stem, and put them back in. That will fill in the > excess space. -- This message has been scanned by MailScanner
