In inclement weather with lots of rain, or other high
humidity conditions, you will have significant changes
depending on how long you will be playing. And how long
between sets.
I've played with HD playing friends and noticed that under
those conditions you take your well tuned instrument out of
it's case when you are ready to play. After about 20 to 30
minutes, if the humidity is real high you will have your
changes. Everybody will be playing out of tune. Just strive
on and explain to the understanding audience that should
everybody retune, then by the time everybody was finished,
then your set would be over and you all would still be out
of tune. So just play until you cannot stand it.
If you are to be playing all day, do the best you can under
the circumstances. If it is thunder and lightening, well,
then, you know your set is over. You cannot play again until
the thunder storm has safely passed.
If you get any tingling or buzzing or if the sound system
shorts out, then again, you are finished.
Under any of those circumstances your band should be paid.
Even if you don't play. If you are volunteering your music,
it becomes a bit easier to bow out of performing at all.
I've been in those situations on both sides of the stage. As
a performer and in the audience. And as a paid player and as
a volunteer. I prefer to be on stage and get paid and be
safe about it.
Hope this helps a little. I'm sure there are lots more
comments coming from the Scuba Diving & Mermaid Hammered
Dulcimer Club players out there.
In Harmony,
Alf
p.s. How does one get the Kicking Mule recordings that you
and others made? Some of those recordings are my favorites.
On 3/22/2012 4:54 PM, ptommerup@juno.com wrote:
Got a question about the advisability of playing one's HD outdoors in rainy
weather.
Obviously one would not want to play in a downpour under any circumstances, but
my band is playing at an outdoor gig this Saturday in the SF Bay Area, and rain
seems to be predicted. The other band members all play instruments with 4-6
strings (fiddle, banjo, guitar). They tend to be hardy souls who would probably
not be deterred by a bit of damp. I, OTH, DO NOT want to discover that the 68
strings on my Dusty Strings D-300 HD have been compromised by misty weather, I
understand we'll be playing under a shade structure, but that doesn't mean it's
completely dry under there if it drizzles or rains.
Anyway, just wondering at what point one would be prudent NOT to be playing
one's HD in inclement weather conditions. I'm asking because I have a feeling
there will be some peer pressure to keep playing unless it gets really bad, and
I want to have some solid data on which to base any decision not to play my HD.
Thanks,
Peter
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