Bill, Are these pianos at the University/College or private teachers? I learned that if this is a private teacher you can check with the parent's home owners insurance for coverage. It made me feel better about the mess to know that some resonsibility $$ comes back to the student & parents. Replace everything. Don't even touch it. My motto for the day. Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: maxpiano <maxpiano at sc.rr.com> Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:33 pm Subject: [CAUT] Return of the swallow To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> > Tomorrow will be my third occasion to clean up a vertical for a piano > teacher (different one each time), whose pupil came to the lesson ill > and proceeded to empty her stomach contents into the piano. My wife > received the distress call today. Parents teach kids to cover their > mouths when they cough, why don't the kids also turn the head aside > when the irrepressible spews forth? > > The previous two occasions, one was a Baldwin Hamilton where the mess > had been there over a year, had dried up and responded to a fairly > routine cleaning under the keys. The second was a Kimball spinet (why > do people teach on those things) some distance from here, where it > took me over a month to schedule the trip. There was this black hairy > mass of growth under the keys, and key bushings to replace. > > My question is, how best to be prepared for tomorrow. I assume > rubber gloves and some dilute bleach for starters. The piano is a > Steinway (living room edition of the 1098) which I would like to leave > as unruffled as possible. Not that I have any particular affection > for the 1098, but there is a lot of good workmanship in those beasts. > > Bill Maxim BJU >
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