Along the line of my recently worried questions, I have one about humidity.
I live in SLC, and in my house the RH is 33%. The lute I have was built in a workshop where the relative humidity was 50%. In my lute case, I have an Oasis humidifier in the pegbox area of the case, and inside the bowl of the lute itself, I have a violin dampit. (The luthier made it so you can remove the strap peg on the bottom, and insert a dampit). I also have a hydrometer in there to check, and the first day it read 55% RH. It's been slowly dropping until this morning, where it reads 38%. I wet the dampit every day, and I make sure the Oasis is full. Is this ok? Is the hydrometer (it's a sensitive hydrometer) even able to provide an accurate reading in this setting? I don't see any reasons for concern on the soundboard or anything, but I just want to make sure. Any advice would be great! Adam To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
