The mold that's left in those pics doesn't look too terrible to me! There are commerical anti-mold sprays for use in the home; how effective they'd be, I don't know. The main thing is to maintain the piano, after reasonable cleaning, in conditions dry enough for mold not to grow. I come across a lot of old pianos here in the West of Scotland that have been damp at one time and mold has started, then they've been moved somwhere else where it's drier and the mold growth is arrested. The intial furry growth doesn't seem to go away; it just gets grubby and grey with age and doesn't increase, unless the piano gets damp again. While I agree that mold/mildew can indeed be a health hazard, I don;t think that what is left inside a nceily cleaned piano in a dry living environment is really going to be a problem, unless someone in the home has an EXTREME allergic sensitivity to some particlar mold protein. Best regards, David. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120926/b9c3fe8f/attachment.htm>
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