Tom, A serious consideration is that of prohibiting future mold spore growth. Properly treated with a microbial enzyme or microbial formulation will eliminate problematic results in a high humidity environment. These products I have available and could send you enough to treat the action, keys, keybed, etc. Good luck! Dave Swartz, RPT dms2000@pioneerplanet.infi.net website: http://www.majesticpiano.com Smoke & Water Damage Restoration At 07:54 PM 2/5/98 -0800, you wrote: >Today, I was asked by an insurance company to look at a water-damaged >1989 Kimball Viennese grand. I was the second technician to be hired, >the first having given an extremely high bid, several thousand dollars. >For the record, the first tech was not a PTG member. > >The jacuzzi upstairs had sprung a leak in a pressure line. The water ran >from the point of the leak to an opening in the ceiling below for a fire >sprinkler. That's right, there was a fire sprinkler directly over the >piano (you know, in case of spontaneous combustion). > >So, last December, water had dripped down on to the music desk at the >rate of about 16 ounces per minute, spilled from the tray into the plate >webbing of the two treble tuning pin areas, thence into the >corresponding sections of the action and, presumably, out the "keybed >drain" (hole for shift lever). > >Everything is now dry and in remarkably good shape. No keys or action >parts are sticking. There is some unevenness of hammer swings but it was >probably that way before. The only rust is on the strings (mostly around >tuning pins). The music desk tray felt became unglued. The piano is very >out of tune. I cannot find anything else wrong and I'm concerned that I >have overlooked something major. > >Anyone have ideas of what to look for? > >Tom >-- >Thomas A. Cole RPT >Santa Cruz, CA > >
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