Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS) DEFENSE

[Barbara Richmond]

Hey Ron,

It's Swiffer.  Two fs.  Look at the box.  ;-)

www.swiffer.com

Barbara Richmond, RPT
somewhere near Peoria, IL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RON MAY, RPT" <ronmay_rpt@bellsouth.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS) DEFENSE


> IN DEFENSE OF THE SWIFTER PADS.
>
> I just pulled my wife's (correction our) box of wet sifters to check
> ingredients. All it says is that it contains no phosphate. I does go on to
> advertise that it is great for "Virtually all floors including WOOD" and
> advises that the dry Swifter be used prior to the wet. There is a number
to
> call for more information which I will do Monday out of curiosity and will
> let you know. If used with a little bit of care, the Swifter pad (both wet
> and dry) lays flat on the soundboard surface and is easily moved over the
> soundboard with no contact with the strings. The dry Swifter does attract
> and pick up almost all the dust. I don't know how dirty the soundboards
are
> that you all are cleaning but usually the boards I get into cleaning are
so
> dirty that they are way past being damaged with a little silicone. Swifter
> sure beats the bucket and a bunch of rags and the air compressor scares me
> to death.. When you find some old clunker that you can't hurt----
>
> "TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT".
>
> Ron May
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS)
>
>
> > Ron May said: "I recently tgried something new cleaning soundboards and
it
> > worked great.
> > Swifter pads......."
> >
> > Yikes! If I'm not mistaken, those things have Silicone in them! Not
> > something I want any where near a piano. Because they are not a food
item,
> > they are not required to list the "ingredients", so beware. Swifter is
> made
> > by the Pledge people, therefore I would not get any of their product
near
> a
> > piano. Wellll, that's just me.<G>
> > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> > Captain, Tool Police
> > Squares Are I
> >
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