The humidity in the Southern Appalachians makes maintaining a favorable wood moisture content a dicey proposition. Finally the humidity is dropping toward more fall-like levels and I am ready load the harp assemblies into the drying room (a sea-can) to stabilize the moisture before doing the finishing. But alas, this is also an outfit with a pastoral economy and the drying rack has been usurped by the bumper crop of beans. I wonder if Stradivarius had problems like these?!