smoke damaged pianos, reply

[Jon Page]

Dust? You are cleaning dust? You are getting an insurance co. to
accept this?!    You must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Don't they make air compressors out there?

Don't forget to replace the block because the crack between the pin
and the block has been contaminated with dust.

Replace the hammers because they have been laden with dust.

I shutter to think of the dust creeping its way in between the bridge pins
and the cap.  Those poor glue joints!

To be honest with you, I could not go to sleep at night if I did not get a
brand
new piano for this customer because  . . . can you REALLY GET ALL THE DUST????
Way up under the bulkhead, on top of the beams. . .

Is there something I am not aware of with plaster dust?
I just strikes me funny.

Jon Page
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At 07:56 PM 3/23/98 EST, you wrote:snip>
>But this situation is not restricted to older pianos. I just had delivered to
>my shop a 10 year 7'4" Bosendorfer which was in a room where the ceiling
>collapsed. The piano did not sustain any direct damage, but the customer
knows
>that plaster dust creeps into every crevice. So I have to unstring the piano,
>remove the plate, clean under the plate, and then replace the strings and
>felts. I also have to take each action part off the stack, and clean them. 
>
>As I said in my orginal post, insurance companies need to be educated that
>replacing parts is the only solution to correcting smoke damaged (or plaster
>dust damaged) pianos. 
>
>Willem Blees RPT
>St. Louis
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