Denis The piano will suffer from the same problems associated with a fire. Except for the finish, for now everything will look OK. But over the long haul, perhaps a year or two, major problems will happen, like the strings getting rusty, the damper felts becoming crusty, and, as Paul warned, the glue joints loosening up. Also, as the piano dries out, the tuning will take a nose dive. You might want to tell the administration not to sign off on this for at least a year. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: denisikeler at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 3:39 am Subject: [CAUT] Steam explosion Hello list, Got a call from a music teacher from an elementary school. Sometime between Christmas and New Years a radiator blew in his classroom. The whole classroom was steamed hard and wet. Everything hanging on the walls were wet, ceiling tiles were all warped. The piano involved was a mid 90's P22. It was at the opposite side of the room. The finish looks like it was scalded with boiling water. Other than that, it seems OK. All the unisons were solid, just a little flat which is normal for this time of year. There are no pressure ridges on the soundboard. I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on any long term damage that might show up later. My thinking is, that the steam heat explosion thing was short. Only long enough to release all the pressure from the boiler system. Because no one was around between the holidays, the room stood wet for several days. The piano sounds perfectly normal. Have anybody on the list had a simalar situation? Denis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100211/9e616f3d/attachment.htm>
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