<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>David</div> <div> </div> <div>Contact a company that does smoke damage from fires. They will put the piano in a room with an ionization process. It is the process eliminates smoke from fires, So I presume it will do the same with cigarette smoke.</div> <div> </div> <div>Wim </div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Lawson <dlawson@davidlawsonspianos.com.au><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 3:11 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Ridding tobacco smell from grand<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="AOLMsgPart_0_94babd24-9132-4d22-9c04-0d6673c55d73"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Does anyone have a solution to ridding a grand from over powering tobacco smell? We have just taken delivery of a Kawai GS-50, reconditioned 10 years ago, and has been in a smokers home ever since. We have cleaned every part that is possible, with all sorts of chemicals, even painted the underneath, both rim and soundboard with shellac, all to no avail. The front string pads are certainly a source of the stink, but how does one clean or disinfect them without rusting the strings? The action too is as bad as the rest of it. We have recovered the music desk liner and the stool, which certainly helped. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. David Lawson Wangaratta OZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <<a href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a>> To: <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 10:49 AM Subject: pianotech Digest, Vol 50, Issue 121 > Send pianotech mailing list submissions to > <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" target="_blank">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > <a href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > <a href="mailto:pianotech-owner@ptg.org">pianotech-owner@ptg.org</a> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pianotech digest..." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE A Happy New Year (Tom Gorley) > 2. Re: A Happy New Year? (David Boyce) > 3. Re: RE A Happy New Year (David Love) > 4. Re: A Happy New Year? (David Love) > 5. Re: A Happy New year? (David Love) > 6. Square Grand and other foibles<G> (Joseph Garrett) > 7. OT, tuning devices (Leslie Bartlett) > 8. Re: A Happy New year? (Dale Erwin) > 9. Happy New Year? (Phil Bondi) > 10. Re: OT, tuning devices (Dave Doremus) > 11. Re: A Happy New year? (Bruce Dornfeld) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pianotech mailing list > <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> > <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" target="_blank">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> > </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>