Dead bass strings

[Robin Olson]

   I have heard that useing WD 40 in or near a piano can cause the 
bass string to go dead.It must be something to do with flurocarbons.
                                         Robin Olson RPT



----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
Date: Friday, December 20, 2002 6:03 am
Subject: Re: Dead bass strings

> 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?
> 
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