Dave Weinstein Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) If you're considering the risk of salt air to Concertinas, how far is safe? Just stay away from being on the water? Be careful being within a few dozen feet of the water? Stay a few blocks away? Coastal towns are a bad idea? Edited April 20, 2019 by Dave Weinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Laban Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) The subject was touched on (see Geoff Wooff's posts, among others) in a previous thread: I live in an environment that is both damp and inundated with salt air (a few miles from the Atlantic in Co Clare) and I can tell you from experience it's an environment where just about everything is affected by it, from leaves scorching off the trees after a day's strong wind from the west to everything that can rust, rusting and decaying at an astonishing pace. Edited April 20, 2019 by Peter Laban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_s Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Question.......so if you go to a “close to ocean locale” for say a week will that cause a problem? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 (edited) Really it does depend on the weather conditions and playing location. If one is playing outdoors with a salty mist blowing off the ocean and at a temperature where moisture will rest on steel reeds, then rust will form quickly and cause tuning issues at the least. I lived for 18 months in a house on the cliffs above Doolin ( and many more years as a neighbour of Peter Laban) without any problems... but playing in the house or at sessions had no ill effects. Playing my Pipes at the beach for funerals (scattering of ashes into the sea) did its reeds no good at all. As long as one is sensible I can see no problems but the romantic picture of Barnicle Bill singing sailor songs on the deck of a square rigger rounding the horn in a hurricane is, I do believe, beyond fiction. Edited April 21, 2019 by Geoff Wooff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbeamer Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 I keep My Lachenal anglo on my boat in the summertime , it lives in a Peli case and I’m careful about making sure the atmosphere is reasonably dry when I’m playing. Been doing this for a few years without any noticeable detriment. I would say the boat is fairly “airy” and almost never feels damp . Hope that helps . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Weinstein Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 We are approaching the traditional three months of sunshine in the Pacific Northwest, and there are weekend places for rent along Puget Sound (salt water). The question is, assuming playing inside, on a dry day, but within 100 meters of the salt water, how much risk to the instruments are involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 One friend , who's house is virtually on the beach, had a new car rust away during the garantee period. The warrantee did not cover living so close to the Atlantic. But her concertinas have survived with no apparent problems at that address these last 25 years.... so I'd not worry too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 stay indoors with the instrument, and no dramatic thing will happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jggunn Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 salt air is not the problem. The problem is humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Weinstein Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 (edited) All my instruments are in a room kept at 45% Relative Humidity, so that should be ok. Edited April 24, 2019 by Dave Weinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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