Originally Posted by
(Amanda Lyn @ Oct. 06 2007, 07:30)
My house is heated with a woodstove, which really dries out the winter air. My fret ends can even grow longer. I think what is best for me is to keep my instruments and instrument-making woods in one room behind a closed door, and using a humidifer - one of those units that you sometimes see which sits on the floor and goes about its work. This way, instead of adding water to a bunch of tiny devices I can be done with it by adding water to one appliance.
Does anyone else use this method?
I use one. I keep it in my closet with multiple instruments. It's easier to humidify a small room, and even easier to humidfy one where the door is always closed. I use a small unit with a humidistat which turns the unit off once the set-point is reached.
I keep one instrument out in it's case. For this instrument I keep a kithchen sponge in a ziplock bag in the acessorie compartment.
Stephanie, one thing you could also try just to add a little moisture into the air for comfort, is to take a big pasta pot full of water and put it on the woodstove.
And now for today's weather....sunny, with a chance of legs
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