Dead bass strings

[gordon stelter]

'round here, I've actually heard of well respected
tooners USING WD-40 to clean bass strings, and center
pin lubricant to dope blocks. 
     Yikes!!!!
     Thump

     I guess that's not a good idea.
--- John Baird <jbairdrpt@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Three years ago I restrung the bass on a Kawai
> UST-6. It was a piano that I
> had no prior experience with, but the customer said
> the bass suddenly went
> dead. I inquired about the possibility of any sprays
> such as furniture
> polish or WD-40 getting on the strings. They didn't
> think so. I did not ask
> about fumes, but the question is now on the
> customer's card and will be
> asked next time.
> 
> John Baird
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ted simmons" <ted@yourlink.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Dead bass strings
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
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