My experience with smoke damage is that damper felt will lightly harden after about a year. It may look like nothing is wrong, but apparently the lite film of undetected smoke tar hardens as it ages. ---Tom Gorley On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Terry Farrell wrote: > Hi folks. Going to look at a smoke damaged piano today. Don't know much about it at this point. I don't have much experience with these, other than reading about them a bit. > > I'm generally aware of potential/likely damage to strings and pinblock, glue joints in general (I suppose depending on heat exposure), soundboard (heat, moisture, etc.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101110/62faf184/attachment.htm>
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