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<font face="Arial">The mold that's left in those pics doesn't look
too terrible to me! There are commerical anti-mold sprays for use
in the home; how effective they'd be, I don't know.<br>
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The main thing is to maintain the piano, after reasonable
cleaning, in conditions dry enough for mold not to grow. I come
across a lot of old pianos here in the West of Scotland that have
been damp at one time and mold has started, then they've been
moved somwhere else where it's drier and the mold growth is
arrested. The intial furry growth doesn't seem to go away; it just
gets grubby and grey with age and doesn't increase, unless the
piano gets damp again. <br>
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While I agree that mold/mildew can indeed be a health hazard, I
don;t think that what is left inside a nceily cleaned piano in a
dry living environment is really going to be a problem, unless
someone in the home has an EXTREME allergic sensitivity to some
particlar mold protein.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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David.<br>
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