Since 1947 Dampp-Chaser® Corporation has worked to provide the best technology available to protect pianos like yours from the damaging effects of environmental changes. With a Dampp-Chaser Climate Control System installed, out-of-sight, in your piano, you will immediately notice greater tuning stability. The piano will sound the way it was meant to, day after day.

System Benefits

1. (1) Stabilizes pitch and permits tunings to hold much better and longer. (the tuning will not go sharp or flat when the weather or room humidity changes)
   

2. (2) Minimizes the expansion and contraction of action parts which provides optimum touch and predictable keyboard control.
   

3. (3) Prevents rust on the strings and metal parts.
   

4. (4) Minimizes felt deterioration, reducing the harsh tones that come from flattened hammer felt in low humidity or the muffled tones from swollen hammer felt in high humidity.
   

5. (5) Minimizes glue failure throughout the piano.
   

6. (6) Protects your piano's investment value year after year.
   

Dampp-Chaser® makes a complete system which controls your piano's immediate. environment with respect to humidity, and equilibrium moisture content. These systems consist of three parts: a humidifier for adding moisture to the air, a dehumidifier for eliminating excess moisture, and a humidistat or control unit which senses the Relative Humidity of the air within the piano and activates the system to add or remove moisture as needed. These systems are designed to maintain the R.H. of the air within the piano at the ideal level of 42%. The components are installed out of sight, inside the case of a vertical piano or under the soundboard of a grand. They are easy to maintain.

Major Piano Manufacturers Recommend the System:

Boesendorfer

"The usage of Dampp-Chaser humidity control systems effectively compensates climatic changes within the piano's environment and is for that reason beneficial in terms of stability and long term reliability."

Steinway and Sons

"The installation of a Dampp-Chaser Humidity Control System can, in our opinion, provide a degree of climate control for the piano which may not otherwise be attainable."

 

Schimmel

"The best way to preserve the value of fine grands and uprights is to automatically regulate the humidity right within the instrument .. with a System from Dampp-Chaser Corporation."  - Nikolaus Schimmel  

  

Yamaha

"...Yamaha fully endorses the use of the system with Yamaha pianos in areas that are subject to extremes in humidity.  Without such a system, it is very difficult to control the humidity around the piano."

Pearl River

"Pearl River Piano Group USA believes that a properly installed and maintained Dampp-Chaser system can enhance the performance and longevity of our pianos."

 

Kawai

"Your Dampp-Chaser humidity control systems are the best and most carefully designed systems we have seen."

Baldwin

"Baldwin recommends the Dampp-Chaser system as a valuable means to help insure the longevity and stability of our pianos."

 

Seiler

"The Dampp-Chaser Climate Control System helps retain both the regulation and pitch of top quality instruments, thus stabilizing the tonal character inherent in a particular make or instrument as well as its long-term value."   - Ursula Seiler  

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