Fire extinguisher

[Allan Gilreath]

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I'm replying for our good friend and member Clarence Zeches as follows:

 

Allan L. Gilreath, RPT

South East Regional Vice President

Piano Technicians Guild

706 602-7667

SERVP@ptg.org

 

 

 

Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia had this happen about 4 years ago.
I went in with a shop vac, stiff bristle paint brush, a smaller brush,
soft rags, and my soundboard cleaner and spent about one hour cleaning.
This was on a Yamaha G2.  We asked the insurance company to keep the
file open on this for a couple of years to see what damage might occur
down the road.  There has been no damage.  I do have to say though, it
depends on the fire extinguisher rating and the chemicals in the
extinguisher.  

 

Clarence Zeches

 

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From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Wimblees@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:57 AM
To: caut@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Fire extinguisher

 

In a message dated 10/4/2003 9:03:31 AM Central Standard Time,
algiers_piano@bellsouth.net writes:

Anyone have any advice about removing dry chemicals from a piano? We 
apparently had a fire extinguisher sprayed around the choir room at 
Tulane last night, including the D. It's not wet,  it's the yellow 
powder kind. Suggestions welcome,
-- 
----Dave

Is the university self insured? If not, you might be able to negotiate
for a new piano. From what I understand the chemicals in fire
extinguishers are pretty caustic, and will corrode the string, pins,
center pins, it gets into all the felts, etc. In order to get the piano
back into performance condition, it would need to be completely rebuilt.


 

When the D on our stage was vandalized, we were able to convince the
insurance adjuster that there was no guarantee that the piano would ever
be in the same condition as it is now. And that is why we needed a new
instrument. We got one, and kept the old one, which I repaired, but it
is now our "secondary" concert piano.

 

Wim 


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