At 06:40 PM 11/20/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Hey folks, >We have some 7' Steinway grands that have over 30 years of fingerprints on >them. We also have a Baldwin SD-10 about the same age. We are beginning >a program to rebuild them but that will take five or 6 years. They are >traditional black and I would like to clean them up some. I wipe them down firmly with a barely damp (clean) towel every time I tune them. This helps a lot, though the first time takes a lot of work above the fallboard and on the cheeks, getting rid of the layer of ossified mud. I've had good luck with the Cory product for satin pianos, but for heavily soiled pianos I'd get off most of the crud with a damp towel first. Susan Kline Linfield College
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