How much tone is lost by PAINTING a soundboard with gray primer ???? ( YUCK! !!)

[gordon stelter]

     Quite a  lot, I'd suspect. I just picked up this
Steinway upright, and found rather thick, gray paint
all over thre back posts and soundboard. 
Gray sandable primer is, I believe rather soft 
( = sound absorbing. ) If I have time, I'll get a
bunch of carbon filters for my gas-mask, and try to
blast it off with lacquer thinner in my spray gun,
with a  bottle brush to get behind the posts. 
     Peace,
     G

P.S. Thanks for all the answers to my felt-chopper
query! Gave me some great ideas, and if I come up with
someting different, I'll try to post some photos.

 



       
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