At 03:29 PM 08/26/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Sorry about that...I thought "snuggles", or any generic fabric softener, >was pretty widley used for this purpose. > >Terry Peterson >Los Angeles, CA >Associate Member, PTG I've heard it is often used, but I think you'll find that just plain alcohol and water (i.e., vodka or some generic imitation [50-50 water and ethyl alcohol] will work just fine. It's the alcohol that gets the water to wick into the hammer. I prefer not to leave anything in the hammer that wasn't there already. Fabric softener always seemed to me to be smelly goo, which had no place in a piano, though others seem to like it. Susan Kline
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