Dead bass strings

[ted simmons]

The piano is a Kawai UST-7 console.  I have had experience with certain
fumes contaminating bass strings.  The most well-known is WD-40, which
definitely kills bass strings.  I had an occasion where a customer used a
spray wax on his piano and the bass strings went dead.  The wax wasn't
sprayed on the strings, just on the case.  Yet the strings died.  Had to be
fumes causing that.

Ted Simmons

> From: G GRAVINA <ggravina@ix.netcom.com>
> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:43:15 -0500
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: Dead bass strings
> 
> Ted,
> 
> What kind of piano?  I'd look more towards a rolled bass bridge rather than
> chemical contamination from paint fumes.
> 
> Jerry Gravina, RPT
> Babylon, NY
> 
> 
> At 11:18 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> I've been tuning the 5 pianos in this particular church every 6 months for
>> the last ten years.  Today I found the piano in the gym has suddenly come up
>> with dead bass strings.  I reported it to the officials and discovered that
>> the room the piano was in (a large gym) had been painted since my last
>> visit.  I explained how dangerous certain chemical fumes are to piano bass
>> strings but couldn't give them a list of which products to avoid.  Does
>> anyone have such a list?
>> 
>> Ted Simmons
>> Merritt Island, Florida
>> 
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