Te> Subject: Mildewed Piano Te> they considered as mildew was a spotted discoloration on the hammer Their real problem was broken hammer spring Te> cords. This is a Yamaha studio and the hammers attach to the flange Te> with a metal clip. Should be pretty easy to replace the strings. I Te> saw no mildew, but does anyone know what the spots are on the hammer Te> cores and keys? I've seen it a lot on old pianos. This one is about Te> 10 years old. Te> Ted Simmons Ted, I don't know about the spots however I've replaced 2 sets of hammer flanges with cords on this model of piano recently. The first one was new enough that Yamaha sent the flanges out for free. The second piano was older and I had to pay a small amount of about $40 I think. The very good advice I got from the Yamaha rep. was to first travel the old hammer flanges and then replace every other one. Then travel the replaced flanges before replacing the other 44. If your remove the damper backstop rail you can get good access to the flanges for inserting traveling paper. Scott Johnson scott.e.johnson@24stex.com ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 [NR]
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