<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>I'll defer to others on this one.  I generally use a damp cotton cloth, then a dry one.  It seems to work okay.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/13/2006 5:20:05 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, pianotune05@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">HI Dave,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Do you use anything in particular to clean inside = the piano besides a vacuum?  Will something like 409 bother strings pins etc?  I find the plate, strings and pins to be quite filthy in pianos.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px sol= id">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Piannaman@aol.com <BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR><FONT face=Ar= ial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>I have a blue handled mute that I bought from Schaff several years ago.  It's a Papp's mute, made of plastic.  I found it to be useless.  It has disappeared into some black hole in the trunk of m= y car.  It is not to be confused with the flat handled mutes with the= blued steel handle, which work quite well.  After the rubber wears = out, you can even use the handle to push a rag around in hard to clean places= under the strings near the tuning pins.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/12/2006 10:08:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, jlfortiner@gmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px soli= d"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 s= ize=2>I would assume that the "blue handled mute" is really the split black rubber<BR>mute with the flat blued steel handle coming from the back o= f the mute.  I<BR>have about 1/2 a dozen of them.<BR><BR>John Fortiner<BR>Billings, MT.  <BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Don [mailto:pianotuna@yahoo.com] <BR>Sent: Sunda= y, February 12, 2006 5:19 PM<BR>To: Pianotech List<BR>Subject: Re: Upgrading.....<BR><BR>Hi Marshall,</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FONT><= /DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>