I would contact Dave Schwartz dms2000@pioneerplanet.infi.net , (Majestic Piano Co. LLC) who specializes in smoke damage. You can find his home page as well via the PTG list of RPT's. Roy Ulrich Pike Piano, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 1:08 PM Subject: pot roast damage >A pot roast that was cooked about four hours too long, and on HIGH, has >smoked a customer's house and piano. I know what my recommendation would be >had it been burning construction materials that had produced the smoke, but >the pot roast is a little different flavor of smoke. I'd like another >opinion or twelve, if you've got them, on whether this is realistically >cleanable, or if we are looking at a rebuild as I would recommend with a >construction material fire. Complicating all this is the fact that the piano >needs a new soundboard, which couldn't reasonably be claimed for insurance, >and isn't in the customer's budget (it's never simple, is it?), but that's >another problem altogether. Any recommendations on the smoke? > >Smoke 'em if you've got 'em, and thanks. > > Ron N
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