The only dampits I find here in this part of the world are either the little rubber hose you can stick into a rosette or an f-hole (my HG has neither) or one of those guitar dampits that you hang onto the strings right into the guitar rosette (or whatever that big hole is called in English, lol)
neither work for me. And, as far as some guitar player friends of mine have experienced, they either dry out too fast or they leak inside your instrument... I was thinking of getting one of these and sticking it permanently into my HG case http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Waves-Large-Instrument-Humidifier/dp/B0002CZVFK/ref=pd_cp_MI_3 what do you guys think? On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Simon Wascher <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hurdygurdy%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
