Dead bass strings

[Clyde Hollinger]

Friends,

I hope some of our gurus in the piano service field will elaborate on the fumes
idea.  I never heard before of fumes affecting a piano in any way.

Ted:  What kind of piano are we talking about here?  Since it's in the gym I'm
assuming maybe a cheap spinet or console, not a grand.  I am inclined to believe
the glue between the bass bridge and the apron left go since you last tuned it,
or some other problem down there.  But there's still an awful lot about pianos I
don't know.  (For sure!)

Regards,
Clyde

ted simmons wrote:

> I've been tuning the 5 pianos in this particular church every 6 months for
> the last ten years.  Today I found the piano in the gym has suddenly come up
> with dead bass strings.  I reported it to the officials and discovered that
> the room the piano was in (a large gym) had been painted since my last
> visit.  I explained how dangerous certain chemical fumes are to piano bass
> strings but couldn't give them a list of which products to avoid.  Does
> anyone have such a list?