Sprite is worse…somebody poured a whole can over all the dampers on a Baldwin SF we have here. Stealth damage. I couldn’t see any residue but it was gunked to high-heaven. I had to re-do the dampers and put all new parts in the action. The bass strings obviously had to be replaced but the treble wire was ok as long as none of the sprite got into the agraffe…one tiny drop in an agraffe is enough to completely kill the note and there was no way I could find to clean it out without replacing the wire. I hope the person who did it feels guilty about it the rest of his/her life… Eric Eric Wolfley, RPT Director of Piano Services College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:30 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Root beer damage Same thing has happened at CalArts on a U-1... Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 1:48 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Root beer damage At least it missed the bass strings. I had a full set go dead from just a sprinkling of some sort of soda. The sprinkling came from a spill on top (lid closed) of a Yamaha U-1. Some leaked through the hinge area. You wouldn't think, with the placement of that hinge, that much would splatter to the strings, and not much did (visual inspection), but the strings were dead dull. Had to be replaced. I cleaned up the hammers and dampers well enough for function. They just had drips here and there on them. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu> On Nov 13, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Jim Busby wrote: John, While we’re sharing pictures… Of course it’s not coffee here at BYU, but root beer can also do a number on a UST7. (Two weeks ago in a dorm) Jim <Copy of Hlmn hall damage1.JPG> = ________________________________ Instant access to the latest & most popular FREE games while you browse with the Games Toolbar - Download Now!<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212904500x1200818240/aol?redir=http://toolbar.aol.com/games/download.html?ncid=emlweusdown00000004> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081114/4f4ed129/attachment-0001.html>
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