Disklavier

My parents are moving into a new home after 44 years.   Dad insists 
that their 35 year old spinet piano (not a disklavier- I have that)
needs to be against an interior wall.   Cold and humidity from an 
exterior wall not good for piano.   They live in northwest part of 
Illinois.   Is this really an issue anymore with a home that is less 
than 15 years old and has good insulation?   Arranging their new 
living room would be so much easier if it is ok to put the piano 
against an exterior wall.

Thanks for anyone's help!

Bruce Conley

Interesting family dynamics!  Why not just trust Dad and Mom to work it 
out for themselves?  Was that the piano you first learned on?  You must 
feel some attachment to it.  Best wishes.

deanbruce84 wrote:
> My parents are moving into a new home after 44 years.   Dad insists 
> that their 35 year old spinet piano (not a disklavier- I have that)
> needs to be against an interior wall.   Cold and humidity from an 
> exterior wall not good for piano.   They live in northwest part of 
> Illinois.   Is this really an issue anymore with a home that is less 
> than 15 years old and has good insulation?   Arranging their new 
> living room would be so much easier if it is ok to put the piano 
> against an exterior wall.
> 
> Thanks for anyone's help!
> 
> Bruce Conley
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Robert Welcyng
Anchorage, Alaska

Robert, suffice it to say that my dad spoiled my mother for 50 years 
of marriage. He had a stroke 3 years ago making mother the care-giver 
now.   She can't make decisions - took 10 years to decide on new 
carpeting.   Their new place is a single-level duplex in a retirement 
community that will be easier on both of them.   Yes, it is the piano 
that I learned on but I have no attachment to it as I have my 
disklavier.   That is more than enough boring details of my family 
life for this group to suffer through.

Now, the question still stands, is it ok to put a piano on an 
exterior wall???

Bruce Conley


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Robert Welcyng <rwelcyng@a...> 
wrote:
> Interesting family dynamics!  Why not just trust Dad and Mom to 
work it 
> out for themselves?  Was that the piano you first learned on?  You 
must 
> feel some attachment to it.  Best wishes.
> 
> deanbruce84 wrote:
> > My parents are moving into a new home after 44 years.   Dad 
insists 
> > that their 35 year old spinet piano (not a disklavier- I have 
that)
> > needs to be against an interior wall.   Cold and humidity from an 
> > exterior wall not good for piano.   They live in northwest part 
of 
> > Illinois.   Is this really an issue anymore with a home that is 
less 
> > than 15 years old and has good insulation?   Arranging their new 
> > living room would be so much easier if it is ok to put the piano 
> > against an exterior wall.
> > 
> > Thanks for anyone's help!
> > 
> > Bruce Conley
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > To Post a message to the group, send it to:   disklavier@Y...
> > 
> > To Post a private message to Todd Muncy, the group's founder and 
moderator, send it to:
> > disklavier-owner@Y...
> > 
> > To reach our group's web site go to:
> > http://Yahoogroups.com/group/disklavier
> > 
> > Todd's family web site was completely updated 012/22/03.  It 
contains some fun disklavier content and links to midi sites among 
many other things, The url is:
> > http://MuncyFamily.com 
> > 
> > THINKING OF LEAVING THE GROUP?
> > If you are thinking of unsubcribing because you are getting too 
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> -- 
> Robert Welcyng
> Anchorage, Alaska

From: "deanbruce84" <deanbruce@...>

> Robert, suffice it to say that my dad spoiled my mother for 50 years
> of marriage. He had a stroke 3 years ago making mother the care-giver
> now.   She can't make decisions - took 10 years to decide on new
> carpeting.   Their new place is a single-level duplex in a retirement
> community that will be easier on both of them.   Yes, it is the piano
> that I learned on but I have no attachment to it as I have my
> disklavier.   That is more than enough boring details of my family
> life for this group to suffer through.
>
> Now, the question still stands, is it ok to put a piano on an
> exterior wall???


Hi Bruce,

You will probably get a few more comments on this.

The short answer is, 'no', not a good idea. Since the temperature does typically
vary more close to an outside wall than the middle of a room <or> against an
inside wall, it will cause the soundboard to expand and contract accordingly,
throwing it out of tune. I believe in your previous email, you mentioned that
you are in the middle or upper half of the U.S.? In the winter, this will cause
further temperature fluctuations inside the room close to an outside wall.

Also the humidity close to the piano may vary a bit more when the piano is
located there. And does the piano receive direct sunlight during the day? These
are other sources of causing the soundboard to expand and contract.

PianoBench has mentioned some of this in his previous emails to the list.


Danny