Febreeze on piano parts?

[gordon stelter]

EXACTLY! Febreze, I have long suspected, just numbs
the nose nerves ( say that fast!) and does NOTHING for
the actual odor!!! And a  piano I used it on made me
quite ill later, every time I sat down to play
     Thump
--- Isaac OLEG <oleg-i@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm temped to believe that it will not do nothing,
> as Febreze is not and
> odor inhibitor, it is an smell taste inhibitor
> (slight difference).
> 
> May be that will be better if it was sold as pills
> that we can take once the
> day, and have no smell the remaining time.
> 
> We in France prefer to use a few drops of Chanel N?5
>  for pianos that smell
> sulfur (don't forget these are instruments of joy)
> 
> But what I like the most is the one (very few
> actually) that put a big bag
> full of product to kill the moths in the piano. When
> you open it to tune you
> almost fall down.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Isaac OLEG
> 
> 
>   -----Message d'origine-----
>   De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de MoodyPianoInc@aol.com
>   Envoye : samedi 30 novembre 2002 22:40
>   A : pianotech@ptg.org
>   Objet : Febreeze on piano parts?
> 
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   In speaking with a customer he happened to mention
> that he decided to
> spray Febreeze on the hammers and the dampers on his
> grand piano (an old,
> privately purchased musty & dusty grand).  I would
> expect that he just
> sprayed through the gaps in the strings as I am sure
> he wouldn't have known
> how to take any of it apart.  After recommending
> that he not spray anything
> on the inside of the piano he assured me that it was
> "fine"...."Febreeze is
> a light mist and evaporates..."
> 
>   I am curios as to what potential damage he has
> caused to the action or
> strings?  And would you expect any resulting damage
> to show up immediately
> or over time?
> 
>   I guess I am constantly amazed at what people will
> do to their
> pianos...kind of like the guy who decided to polish
> all the copper strings
> with Brasso the day after delivery.
> 
>   Thanks in advance for your replies.
> 
>   ~Lanie
> 


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