Coffee in piano

[David Love]

I can almost promise you that it is not the agraffes but the strings
themselves.  I assume this is in the wound section of strings.  I have had
this experience twice recently.  Once the bass strings get wet there
history.  Change the strings.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Ryan" <pryan2@the-beach.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: February 15, 2002 5:55 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
>
>