Candle wax on keys, how to remove?

[Michael Gamble]

This happened to me - on the hammers of a school piano. It also went on the 
covered strings and the wood part of the keys. I scraped as much of as I 
could. It's a terrible old honky upright anyway - but it works. There's an 
old dodge used in "quires and places where they sing..." when candle wax 
gets on cassocks, hassocks and carpets, kitchen paper towel laid on the 
spilt wax and dexterous use of an electric clothes iron does the trick. The 
wax melts and is mopped up by the paper towel.
Regards
Michael G (UK)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Candle wax on keys, how to remove?


> Hi Doug,
>
> I'd be tempted to freeze the keys and then chip off the wax. Have *not*
> done this.
>
> At 09:59 AM 11/02/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>Does anyone know how to remove candle wax from keys?  I went to tune a
>>piano yesterday and the customer said, "yea, I accidentally spilled
>>candle wax on the the keys, I've been trying to get some of it off."
>>
>>It is a mess... about 4 octaves of the keyboard covered with wax. made
>>for an interesting tuning! Has anyone ever removed candle wax and know
>>how to remove it from keytops?  Thanks in advanced!
>>
>>Doug Renz
>>Associate PTG
>>Rochester, NY
>>pianotuner@frontiernet.net
>>
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> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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