rusted piano strings

[Willem Blees]

Mark



If you want to remove the rust from the strings just to make them look better, then use pollitte or steel wool. (There is an excellent article in the PTG Journal a couple of months back about removing rust from bass strings ).?

But if you want to remove the rust to extend the life of the strings, you might as well leave the rust there, because?it's the rust at the pressure points, like?the tuning pin, the V bar and agraffs, the bridge pins and the hitchpins, that will cause the string to break. And you can't remove the rust at those points. 



Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ernest <mernest at indy.rr.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 4:43 am
Subject: rusted piano strings


I have a customer that owns a Kawai Grand with rusted piano strings. Obliviously they would have benefited from a Damper-Chase system, and the piano really needs to be restrung; however, is there any way to remove some of the rust and extend the life of the current strings. ?
Mark?


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