<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=218554722-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>Ah, the voice of experience... thanks, Mark!  Anything smaller than an industrial, front-load machine would probably have (and cause) problems with something that size.  But I hadn't even thought about wrinkling, which certainly wouldn't be an issue with dry cleaning.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=218554722-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=218554722-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>Annie</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Mark Dierauf [mailto:pianotech@nhpianos.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: piano cover cleaning<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I tried washing one of these in my home machine once, with less than stellar results. It came out pretty wrinkled and may have shrunk a little as well - it's hard to say for sure as we were using this particular M&H A cover on an S&S L. It certainly wasn't destroyed but I remember thinking that if I needed one cleaned in the future I'd take it to a dry cleaner and see what they said. Let us know how you come out.<BR><BR>Mark Dierauf<BR>Concord, NH<BR><BR>Annie Grieshop wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:%3CGHEOJCDINIABOHHKEFKFIEANFJAA.annie@allthingspiano.com%3E type="cite"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008>Good morning, y'all, and happy "Goodbye February!"  (The first of March, here in Ioway, looks ickier than the last of February, but it's still the first of March. <g>)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008>A local community center has two grands with quilted cotton duck covers that have been treated about as you'd expect -- so the covers are dirty and a great upset to the Powers That Be.  Can they (the covers, that is) be washed and dried in commercial machines, or do they need to be dry cleaned?  No one seems to know where the covers were purchased or from whom or anything else.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008>Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=843420915-01032008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=843420915-01032008>Annie Grieshop</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>