Coffee in piano

[Farrell]

Wow, that sounds like a weird one! The one thought I have is to see if you can thread a needle & thread (the biggest that will go) through the agraffe, wet the thread/string, and run scrub it back and forth, and then dry it real well. Maybe there is not enough clearance to get a thread through - but maybe there is. Coffee usually comes off a smooth surface pretty easy with just water. Good luck!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Ryan" <pryan2@the-beach.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Coffee in piano


> Dear List,
> 
> A client whose piano I service, spilled a cup of coffee into the action of
> the piano.  The action  was cleaned up pretty well, but some of the notes
> involved later started to turn into a "thudding" sound.  After ruling out
> the hammers as the culprits, I found the problem to be in the agraffes. Some
> of the coffee must have stopped up the holes in the agraffes.  Not having
> any cleaning materials with me (It's on a cruise ship), I left it for next
> time.  Question: Is there a good chemical solvent that will easily disolve
> this congestion without doing additional damage?  Is this a common problem
> with spills?   It's new to me.
> 
> Phil Ryan
> Miami Beach
>