After nearly four years in the Phoenix, Arizona area, my sense is that winter just about anywhere is worse on instruments than summer in the desert. So, don't knock the desert. Maybe the best place to take the instruments in winter would be South America or Australia.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. Principal Materials Nanoanalysis Engineer EMail: [1][email protected] Cell: [2]408-921-3253 (does not work in TEM labs) Titan Lab: [3]480-727-5651 NION UltraSTEM Lab: [4]480-727-5652 JEOL ARM 200 Lab: [5]480-727-5653 2010F Lab: [6]480-727-5654 Office: [7]480-965-7946 John Cowley Center for HREM, LE-CSSS B134B Bateman Physical Sciences Building Arizona State University [8]PO Box 871704 [9]Tempe, AZ 85287-1704 On Jan 12, 2015, at 3:33 PM, "Leonard Williams" <[10][email protected]> wrote: I've been using the smaller of the two case humidifiers made by Planet Waves, purchased online. It come with a small humidifier that gets charged with distilled water and fastens to the case lining via velcro (adhesive dots supplied). It also has a separate electronic humidistat so you can see what the conditions are in the case. Both are slim ellipsoid devices that fit in the case well. I keep the humidifier in the peg head end of the case, not touching the instrument. It seems to work pretty well, though I have had occasional slipping pegs in the winter. Then again, I have very dry, central hot air heating and it must be like a desert in my house this time of year. Regards and good luck! Leonard Williams On 1/11/15, 9:52 AM, "Susanne Herre" <[11][email protected]> wrote: Dear lute friends, It's winter time, so e.g. in Central Europe here it can be quite dry outside. As a result of a train trip on one of those dry days the table of my baroque mandolin loosened from the body although I avoided to put my instrument next to heatings and put some water inside the case. What might be the reasons of those things happening? Is it about the changing from the train to the outside e.g.? Is it the dryness inside the (often too strongly) heated train? Can it happen in a few seconds/minutes having laid the instrument next to a hidden heating? What are you doing to avoid those miseries? Is it better to loosen the strings? How much water and in which way do you put it into the case? Many thanks for helpful hints! Susanne To get on or off this list see list information at [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. tel:408-921-3253 3. tel:480-727-5651 4. tel:480-727-5652 5. tel:480-727-5653 6. tel:480-727-5654 7. tel:480-965-7946 8. x-apple-data-detectors://6/ 9. x-apple-data-detectors://6/ 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. mailto:[email protected] 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
