Sounds like Verdigris to me... bad case as well. In a case like this I would think it appropriate to make some attempt at cleaning up the worst of it, and informing the customer about the problem complete with an estimate of how much it would cost to repair / restore. On the side and in opposite nature to Ed's insistance that we should include something technical to each post...... Verdigris... a strange word indeed. Directly translated to Norwegian it comes out like Valuablepig. As you might imagine each time I see the word written I get a little chuckle. pryan2 wrote: > I tuned a 35 year old Steinway M yesterday that had this greenish-blue > growth on five or six of the agraffes. It had grown so thick that it had > stopped two strings from ringing. After wiggling the muted strings, they > broke free and began to sound again, so I tuned the piano and left, leaving > the green stuff on the agraffes. If I would have had my protek with me (my > car was a block away), I would have lubricated the area. Was that a good > idea? Was that stuff verdigris? (I thought it only grew on action centers). > Is this a common occurrence? Did I do the right thing? Will that stuff > clog the agraffe holes again and cause a call-back? Not knowing what to do, > I decided to "do no harm," get out of there, and recommend a more > experienced tuner(maybe me, by then) if it recurs. What should I have done? > > Phil Ryan > Miami Beach -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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