A few years ago I got a bunch of folks upset here by saying I was going to lacquer the keysticks on a piano I was doing for a church. Besides sealing in residual odors, I saw this as a way to keep slime, from dirty fingers, from soaking into the wood on the white key sides. It worked beautifully ( wipes right off ) so now I am thinking of doing it again, but this time on a Steinway grand that was in a hippie commune and really, really stinks. ( Cigarettes and pets, mostly. ) I'll do everything I can to get rid of the odor such as sanding the wood, ozonating them in a sealed box, etc., but I suspect they'll still be stinky, so I want to lacquer them. Does anyone here have a good mechanical reason why I oughtn't. Thanks! G P.S. It's also a nice way to seal the leads, so they oxidize less and are inhaled as dust, less. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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