A Little Rusty In Alabama

Wimblees@aol.com Wimblees@aol.com
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:46:50 EST


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In a message dated 1/8/03 5:35:42 PM Central Standard Time, Bigeartb@aol.com 
writes:

> Question: How to fix?.... Restring completely???
>       Can rusty strings be cleaned and if so how does one prevent rust from 
> re-accumulating? We should not oil unwound strings ......should we? How can 
> rust be cleaned from the inside area of the wire coil and at each pressure 
> point? 
>     

Tommy

Because there is no way to remove rust from inside the coils, and from under 
the pressure points, the only way to solve this problem is to restring the 
piano. Any other kind of "fix" will not remove the rust, and eventually all 
the strings will pop.

Wim 

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