Your post poses a question and also raises some questions. You did no identify the piano brand so does this musician have a Steinway with vertigre? If not, then I have confidence that the mildew could be removed by blasting. In my opinion there is no more effective to clean unfinished wood then sandblasting it with appropriate media. I have been using a fiberglass bead that I am not completely happy with. It does a beautiful job of cleaning the wood surface without too much damage to the wood surface but the beads do get lodged in the flanges which requires repinning to completely get rid of all the beads. So I am asking the list, is there a sandblasting media, such as ground walnut shells, fine enough to clean effectively yet not bind in the flanges? Also in this situation I would think that a dampchaser installation would be imperative. Please comment. Norm Barrett Memphis, TN Maxpiano@AOL.COM wrote: > List - > > A fellow PTG member who is not on this list has been contacted by a musician > who is concerned about mildew on the hammers and dampers (and elsewhere) in > his concert grand piano. He asks about treating it and preventing its return. > He had a local piano house tune the piano and estimated $1000 to do the job on > the mildew. Apparently he wasn't impressed with their work and wants a second > opinion. > > What if anything can safely be done to kill mildew in a piano and prevent its > return? > > Bill Maxim > Simpsonville, SC
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