As a certified installer, I share with you how a Dampp-Chaser Climate Control System protects your piano from the damaging effects of environmental changes — stabilizing tuning, preventing cracks and rust, and hiding entirely within your piano.
Climate Control — Dampp-Chaser System
Today, Dampp-Chaser systems protect over 250,000 pianos. Since 1947, it has worked to provide the technology available to protect pianos like yours from the damaging effects of environmental changes.
Humidity Damage — What to Watch For
You may have noticed that drawers and doors stick, when you try to open them in humid weather conditions. Or, you may have noticed that glued wooden joints often become loose and wobbly when the air in your home becomes dryer from winer heating or from dry weather that comes with extremely cold temperature. Similarly, piano keys can become tight and stick down, when struck in times of humidity. In dryness, the piano seems to rattle more heavily. With a Dampp-Chaser Climate Control System installed, your piano immediately stabilizes. That means less tuning, more aural stability, and nothing to be seen, no eye sores. The system is hidden within your piano.
Over time, constant changes in humidity levels, with the corresponding shrinking and swelling of the soundboard, will damage the integrity of the board. You will see this damage in the form of a crack in the soundboard.
Recommendation — Act Now
Do not wait to find your piano with mold. Do not wait to one day discover, while piano tuning or dusting, that your strings have rusted, or worse: That your pins have rusted. Do not wait to find yourself with accumulating costly repairs.
Most major manufacturers, such as Steinway & Sons, Yamaha, Kawai, Schimmel, Baldwin, and Young Chang America, praise and recommend this device. And we are proud to be certified installers and maintenance providers.
Year in and year out, no one is seeing a problem. Suddenly it could be too late. Do not wait until your moisture levels get to such a critical level that your technician, tuner or colleague will find rusted, oxidized strings or pins.
Make the investment now to protect yourself from irreparable damage, or costly restoring and rebuilding budgets.
— Protect your piano before damage turns costly — Contact Rocco Garofalo to arrange a consultation in West Hempstead —