Dan,
> To those of you who use humidors for the storage of your flutes, and to
> any one with an opinion on the matter,.
> What do you feel is the ideal level of humidity, and if you can provide
> the names of sources or literature, that would be helpful also.
The question is what moisture content you want in your flute. Kiln dried
lumber suitable for furniture is about 7% moisture content (MC). To
maintain this MC the humidity needs to be between 35% and 40% .
At the bottom of the page http://www.navaching.com/shaku/crack.html is a
graph correlating MC and humidity. The graph will give you the MC for any
humidity you maintain in your humidor.
UNDERSTANDING WOOD by R. Bruce Hoadley
Nelson
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