<div>Mark</div>
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<div>If you want to remove the rust from the strings just to make them look better, then use pollitte or steel wool. (There is an excellent article in the PTG Journal a couple of months back about removing rust from bass strings ). <br>
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But if you want to remove the rust to extend the life of the strings, you might as well leave the rust there, because it's the rust at the pressure points, like the tuning pin, the V bar and agraffs, the bridge pins and the hitchpins, that will cause the string to break. And you can't remove the rust at those points. <br>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br>
Piano Tuner/Technician<br>
Honolulu, HI<br>
Author of <br>
The Business of Piano Tuning<br>
available from Potter Press<br>
www.pianotuning.com</div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Mark Ernest <mernest@indy.rr.com><br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 4:43 am<br>
Subject: rusted piano strings<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_d4a1b39a-53b8-4e88-ad74-11c1b195a211 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">I have a customer that owns a Kawai Grand with rusted piano strings. Obliviously they would have benefited from a Damper-Chase system, and the piano really needs to be restrung; however, is there any way to remove some of the rust and extend the life of the current strings. <br>
Mark <br>
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