<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; =
charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Dave,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The owners heard that the piano or =
pinblock might
dry out so they are misting the piano?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
V>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; =
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Piannaman@aol.com
href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 12, =
2004 10:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Puzzler: instant =
rust</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 =
PTSIZE="10">Listers,
<BR><BR>I had a tuning today on a brand new Kawai RX-3 6 foot 2 grand. =
The piano has been in the house for maybe 3 months. It was =
closed
up tight, but when I opened it, I saw that rust was already starting =
to form
on the strings and on some of the pins. I was shocked, and was =
at a loss
to figure out how this could happen, especially in a house with =
radiant
heating(that's another issue). <BR><BR>It is on caster cups on =
a
painted cement slab floor, and there are no plants in the room. =
<BR><BR>I had
a few ideas, and I'm pretty sure I figured out the reason for this =
early
oxidation, especially after talking to the rather freaked-out owner =
tonight.
<BR><BR>So what, in your esteemed opinions, might this be caused by?
<BR><BR>Dave "rust never sleeps and neither do I" Stahl</FONT>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>