I've had to cleanup this kind of mess a few years ago. I removed the strings and used alcool or acetone to remove the stains. You might as well remove the bridge pins and re-install them with ca or epoxy. I suspect the string contact with the pins must have some kind of sugar left behind. Marcel Carey, Sherbrooke, QC > From: joespiano at gmail.com > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:30:20 -0400 > Subject: [pianotech] Spilled wine > > Dear list, > I service a Bechstein B, housed in the Consulate General of Germany > residence in New York City that has a wine stain on the treble bridge, > where John Negroponte spilled his drink a few years ago. Of course, > it looks bad, but the tone is poorer now for this libation. It is a > bare wood bridge cap. I am hoping someone out there might have an > idea as to how to treat the cleaning. My concern is that the shape of > the bridge cap will change or be negatively affected by the cleaning > process. I am not sure which is an appropriate method- removing with > some sort of solution, or sanding, or both? > > Any ideas that might help restore our image in the eyes of German > public? > > Joe Wiencek > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Rencontres: Faites une rencontre spéciale cette année. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9734394 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100624/085f44b1/attachment.htm>
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