[CAUT] Return of the swallow

[Jeff Tanner]

On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:38 PM, maxpiano wrote:

> Tomorrow will be my third occasion to clean up a vertical for a  
> piano teacher (different one each time), whose pupil came to the  
> lesson ill and proceeded to empty her stomach contents into the  
> piano.  My wife received the distress call today.  Parents teach  
> kids to cover their mouths when they cough, why don't the kids also  
> turn the head aside when the irrepressible spews forth?
>
> The previous two occasions, one was a Baldwin Hamilton where the  
> mess had been there over a year, had dried up and responded to a  
> fairly routine cleaning under the keys.  The second was a Kimball  
> spinet (why do people teach on those things) some distance from  
> here, where it took me over a month to schedule the trip.  There  
> was this black hairy mass of growth under the keys, and key  
> bushings to replace.
>
> My question is, how best to be prepared for tomorrow.  I assume  
> rubber gloves and some dilute bleach for starters.  The piano is a  
> Steinway (living room edition of the 1098) which I would like to  
> leave as unruffled as possible.  Not that I have any particular  
> affection for the 1098, but there is a lot of good workmanship in  
> those beasts.
>
> Bill Maxim BJU
>

Hey Bill,
Now I know someone with experience to whom to refer the first  
customer who calls me with this situation!

:-)

Jeff


Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina



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