Hi Adam, Are you using demineralized water? It is possible that those devices would need just that in order to keep working. Check the manual. Extreme dryness is noticeable in lute bellies. The lighter summer wood (between the grain which is the winter wood) shrinks more so the winter wood sticks out of the surface. If that happens immediate action is called for. The hygrometer should be checked for accuracy every now and then. If it is a hair hygrometer the dial can be adjusted to read between 95 and 100%. Wrap it in wet, but not dripping towel for an hour or so and it should give the aforementioned reading. If not adjust the screw of the dial in the back to read 98 or so. Normal humidity should be between say 50 and 70% relative.
Cheers! Lex Op 26 feb 2012, om 16:30 heeft Adam Olsen het volgende geschreven: > 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
