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Post by Matt on May 16, 2005 14:33:21 GMT
How much does temperature affect an instrument? If at all?
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Post by ~*~Ruth~*~ on May 16, 2005 14:41:00 GMT
violins go really out of tune when they're in a place which is hotter or colder than usual. and the organ in my church goes flat in the winter.
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Post by fluteandbassoon on May 16, 2005 15:00:54 GMT
When it is really cold, my flute needs to be placed on a radiator for a couple of minutes. My bassoon is not affected. Piano, when it is hot the keys stick.
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Post by izzy on May 17, 2005 15:31:45 GMT
Doesn't make a difference to my instruments. Except my flute went funny when I went down south for a week, but I think that's more to do with me playing it than anything else!
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Post by jazzking on May 17, 2005 17:43:01 GMT
LOADS!!! Depending on the instrument, and humidity is really important. We always had a thermometer and humidty thingy on the grand. Temperature moreso with brass or hybrid. The whole answer is complicated and dull so no more from me on this.
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Post by tremolo on May 18, 2005 9:42:06 GMT
temperature not much, but the humidity affects tuning of the piano, but I think it's more of me playing "damaging" pieces making it go out of tune faster! At some times of the year, the humidity in my room could be 30% and this time of the year it could be 75%! What is the range of temperature in your area?
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Post by Matt on May 25, 2005 10:38:43 GMT
Over here in England it's v. rarely humid - probably August is the worst month, at about...20%-ish? - temperature-wise, from...maybe 7-8ish in winter and up to 22-25ish in summer, sometimes higher. But I'm down in the south - up north it goes below freezing alot of the time.
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Post by tremolo on May 25, 2005 10:44:12 GMT
in hong kong it's like 6C in winter and 36C in summer!
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Post by Matt on May 25, 2005 10:45:57 GMT
36!! That's a bit too hot for me...I can't feel the cold at all, but when it's hot...I get a fair bit iritable, let's say.
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Post by tremolo on May 25, 2005 10:49:13 GMT
luckily it's not 36C every day in summer, usually it's a bit less...
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Post by izzy on May 25, 2005 19:50:13 GMT
- up north it goes below freezing alot of the time.[/quote]
Nope rain mainly! It probably goes below freezing in the Highlands, but here, bout 40 mins from scotland, it always rains!
And it doesn't get sunny in the summer, just gets very humid and sticky.
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Post by Chimpyang on May 28, 2005 12:56:52 GMT
the material expans and contracts with the temperature changes so it'll cause it to go ut of tune as the shape of the instrument changes slightly. V V Annoying!
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Post by Matt on Jun 23, 2005 18:58:00 GMT
Bit of an old topic, but revived by the scorching british weather - I had a bassoon lesson on wednesday, in a baking hot practice room, and I tried to play something...the reed might've been a piece of grass for how it was responding...I'm sure the double reedists here'll back me up...
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Post by fluteandbassoon on Jun 23, 2005 19:32:53 GMT
Yep. Had bassoon exam today- took a little pot of water to soak reeds in between pieces
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