Smoke, but not much damage

[marty reyburn]

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Hi Paul :)

I was talking with some other technicians at the Reno convention about this 
very topic, in specific about the various companies offering ozone tenting 
treatments to get rid of smoke smell in pianos, sofas, furniture, etc.
One tech (this was after LaRoy Edward's regulation class) mentioned that he 
had run such a business, but that it was only appropriate for grands worth 
over 9 or 10 k because that's how much work  *in addition* to the ozone 
treatment had to be done... like replacing felts, repinning, cleaning, new 
hammers& dampers, etc.

Another tech in the conversation said he'd followed up smoke damaged pianos 
after several years, and was amazed at how corrosive smoke truly is, even 
if it's "cleaned" off the visible parts.  There are so many tiny bits of 
wire, silk cloth, felt, leather, and wood to clean, and smoke travels deep 
into all those thousands of crevices.  It's a gas, remember, he said, and 
the acids in the smoke had pitted wire and etched into metal parts.

He also said that  insurance companies want to settle for low, easy fixes, 
and he'd been burned  once or twice when he'd given estimates of repair 
*way* too low and done the work... but those pianos had developed such 
severe problems a few years later.  Not a good scenario!

So, there may be, and probably is, more damage than you see right on the 
surface.

Take care..

Marty Reyburn
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