Hantavirus- Demousification

[gordon stelter]

I wear mask, rubber gloves, and take out the keyframe
and scrub the keybed with a brass brush and alcohol,
then mop up the mess with paper towels and discard.
When dry, I paint it. 
    I similarly scrub the keyframe, then put cut soda
straws or rubber tubing over the keypins and
spraypaint. 
   Also the keys, the ivories of which can be masked
with that blue "painter's tape" ( exactly 3/4" ) and
the busahings plugged with a cheap set of bushing
cauls. I use an off white paint, and its presence on
the key sides is not at all objectionable. ( And much
easier to wipe clean of finger-grime than bare wood! )
It probably also stabilizes the keys, dimensionally. 
     This is the best way I have found to mitigate
mouse-stench, but it will not work on pianos like the
one a "lady" here had in her restaurant----with about
a coffee- can worth of mouse crap in it!
     ( She had Gospel-sing alongs on Sunday night for
local children, who played it, and then ate cookies
with their fingers !!! I offered to buy the piano with
the express purpose of burning it, but she refused. )
     Thump
--- Don <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Your mask will need to have "Hepa" filters on it.
> Virus particles are
> *very* small, so an ordinary dust mask is
> essentially transparent to them.
> 
> At 12:29 PM 4/18/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi People,
> >
> >This is a very timely subject for me. I have made
> arraingments to clean a
> similarly "moused" piano next week. I will be
> refelting the keybed and tuning.
> >
> >I was just planning on vacuuming out and wipeing
> down with household
> disinfectant, wearing a mask and rubber gloves. Am I
> taking a serious risk?
> >Rick Ucci/Ucci Piano 
> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
> 
> mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
> http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/
> 
> 3004 Grant Rd.
> REGINA, SK
> S4S 5G7
> 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
> _______________________________________________
> pianotech list info:
https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives



	
		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢
http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash