Hello,
some more words on humidifying.
To Avoid the accumulation of drying is probably the basic aim. The
instrument will not dry out from perfect humidity to dammaging dryness
within hours. In one of the 18th century tutorials, I think it's
Corette, is described that you can put your gurdy into your bed in the
morning when you get up. By this the gurdy can get get balanced by
just adapting to the warm and humid athmospere under the cover. So if
you do this every day, the instrument restarts drying out again daily
and the drying process never accumulates.
The idea of all the humidifyers in the cases is that the instrument
stays in fine conditions most of the times - as long as it is in the
box. When it is played it will maybe start drying out, but it will
take some time to dry, so as long as its not taken out of the case for
longer than some hours at once this certainly will do no harm. So keep
the instrument in the box with a humidifyer, play it put it back and
close the box. Put the case to the most humid place arround, the
kitchen or the bathroom, if thats not possible store it at a cool
place like the basement.
Never ever leave it on any floor in winter if you could not make sure
there is no floor heating - a floor heating will destroy the
instrument within hours.
Never ever leave the instrument in the car, cars cool down to freezing
in winter and heat up to boiling in summer (and cars get stolen with
or without a gurdy in'em).
kind regards, Simon
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