[pianotech] Piano wax anyone?

[John Delacour]

At 07:39 +0800 16/11/2010, Bruce Browning - The Piano Tuner wrote:

>After scraping as much as possible, kerosine is a solvent for candle wax
>for the final clean off.

At 12:44 -0600 15/11/2010, Dave algiers_piano at bellsouth.net wrote:

>Mineral spirits will clean up the residue.

Yes, although candle wax is usually "paraffin wax" and kerosene in 
England is called paraffin, the normal solvent used is white spirit 
(mineral spirit) or turps sustitute.  I've never tried kerosene but I 
doubt if it's as good.

The important thing would be not to use the rag too wet, to avoid the 
solution seeping down between the windings.  That might kill the 
sound.

JD