Smoke machine deposits

[gordon stelter]

If you could get the thing outside I suppose you could
blast it with naptha in a spray gun, (WEAR MASK AND
GLOVES!!!) which, with the help of a stiff brush
assortment ( like a round parts cleaning brush from an
auto parts store ) should clean out the crud without
dissolving paint, lacquer, etc.. Better still, just
pray for the day when people go to hear actual MUSIC
again, not theatrical shenanigans used to disguise
musical mediocrity!
     Thump

--- Wimblees@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/9/02 6:21:01 PM Central
> Daylight Time, 
> drjazzca@yahoo.ca writes:
> 
> 
> > Lots of pop shows in this hall, lots of smoke
> machine.
> > Windex takes it off.
> > 
> > The strings/pins appear to be building deposits.
> > Smoke machines I am told "use an oil base" 
> > 
> >   Any advice on string cleaning, avoiding damage?
> >   Anyone devised a cover to seal just the tuning
> pin
> > area to reduce pin & pinblock exposure?
> > Any related stories to tell?
> > 
> >                           Cheers
> >                           Dave Renaud
> >                           
> 
> Dave
> 
> One thing to remember, if you see oil and crud on
> the strings, then that same 
> stuff is in between the winding on the pins, in the
> felt under the strings, 
> in the agraffs, where the strings meet the bridge
> pins, and around the hitch 
> pins. There is no way the stuff can be removed from
> those area. And those are 
> the places that cause the most problems, if not with
> string breakage, then 
> with buzzes, and noises. Cleaning the speaking
> length of the strings only 
> make the strings look good. It does nothing to make
> it sound good. 
> 
> Unless the piano can be hermetically sealed during
> the show, there is no way 
> to keep the "smoke" off the strings. 
> 
> Sounds like a complete restringing job to me. 
> 
> Wim 
> 


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