Dead bass strings

[G GRAVINA]

Ted,

What kind of piano?  I'd look more towards a rolled bass bridge rather than 
chemical contamination from paint fumes.

Jerry Gravina, RPT
Babylon, NY


  At 11:18 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been tuning the 5 pianos in this particular church every 6 months for
>the last ten years.  Today I found the piano in the gym has suddenly come up
>with dead bass strings.  I reported it to the officials and discovered that
>the room the piano was in (a large gym) had been painted since my last
>visit.  I explained how dangerous certain chemical fumes are to piano bass
>strings but couldn't give them a list of which products to avoid.  Does
>anyone have such a list?
>
>Ted Simmons
>Merritt Island, Florida
>
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