<HTML>In a message dated 4/23/03 3:16:13 PM Central Daylight= Time, gholley@hi-techhousing.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Turns out a guest spilled a dri= nk on the plate/soundboard/strings/pins, about 18 months ago, from G2 all the way to A0.  It was sopped out but there is a stain on the soundboard, the lighting was poor but the strings and plate appear to be discolored, the could not tell the condition of the hammers. "And it won't hold the tuning now, and it was tuned over a year ago" says he. </BLOCKQUOTE> Gordon One drink spilled on a the plate and soundboard is not going to do much dama= ge to either. The main concern would be the bass strings, which most likely = need to be replaced. When you do that, replace the tuning pins with one size= larger. Before replacing the pins, swab out the holes with denatured alcoho= l. What you want to do get rid of is the sugar that was in the drink. The al= cohol in the drink allowed to water to go down in there, but unless this was= a 12 ounce tumbler, I doubt enough was dumped on the pin block to cause the= lamination to separate. The other problem you might need to deal with is the hammers. If they got a = soaking, they will be hard. You can try voicing them, or you might need to r= eplace a few of the bad ones. As far as the soundboard, again, when you're replacing the bass strings, jus= t clean up the mess. The little water that was spilled should not effect the= board, except make it dirty, Wim </HTML>