<WBR>For the sake of being careful not to damage the cover even more, I would suggest you take it to a professional cleaner. And besides, why are you asking us? We're piano tuner, not dry cleaners. :)<br> <br> <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> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Annie Grieshop <annie@allthingspiano.com><br> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 5:14 am<br> Subject: piano cover cleaning<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a> <STYLE>@#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; }#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial}#AOLMsgPart_2_f3bb0158-a515-4e41-8b0e-b39c1e67607a 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> </div> <div id='u8CA49DCC5C2CBC5-C6C-37CE' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Supercharge your AIM. Get the <A title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</A> for your browser.</FONT> </div>