Re: Hot humid weather
Originally Posted by
masa618
I live in Japan, moist air comes from the south of the Pacific Ocean during the rainy season. Today at 80 ° F and 72 humidity, so I don't want the mandolin out of the case. The case is always filled with a humidity control agent and stored on the first floor where the temperature does not rise easily. And I take it out of the case only when practicing while watching the room temperature.
That's not an unusual condition during summer where I live in Canada. I've never found such humidity levels to be a problem with instruments, except that the tuning goes off more often. Otherwise, my instruments are undamaged.
We had an unusually dry couple of weeks in June this year. What dries our houses is mainly heating in winter. Spring came, so I put my case humidifiers away. Then the dry spell followed. I thought it would end in a day or two, so I avoided replacing the humidifiers. I finally accepted that this dry period was here to stay, soaked the humidifiers and put them back in the cases of my five instruments. We then went back to our usual June humidity, and, after another couple of days, I had to put the humidifiers away again.
My sympathy to everyone suffering from extreme heat in the west. I'm not a person who enjoys the typical higher summer temperatures (85-100) in my region.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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