[EN] How to take care of your instrument during the winter
In November I start to answer more and more calls from students and their parents, shocked that their newly bought instrument is already "broken". It seems that I'm having the same conversation over and over again. Vast majority of my clients is just at the beginning of their journey with music and they are often surprised that their new, lovingly treated instrument is starting to get out of tune very often, and sometimes it can even unglue. Why is it happening? Wood is one of the few materials that are in constant movement. It is hygroscopic - meaning that it attracts and holds water molecules from the surrounding. When the temperature or humidity is changing, invisible to the naked eye pores are opening and closing. Despite the fact that the tree has been cut to pieces, turned into plank, snipped, polished and glued together again, you may say that it's never stopped living - well, at least it never stopped moving. Unfortunately, different types of wood swell a...