Brasso bass string problem

[David Nereson]

Arthur Chickering wrote:

> Dear List,
> I have a customer who tried to clean his Haines Grand piano bass 
> strings with Brasso. I have not seen this piano yet. He says that the 
> bass strings after application sound very bad and he wants to know 
> what if anything, short of replacing the bass strings can be done. I 
> told him I had not seen this problem before and that I would check 
> with this list to see what ideas any of you might have as a possible 
> solution.
> Thanks,
> Arthur Chickering


Not that I know of. Anything you can do probably involves removing them 
anyway and trying to clean the gunk our from the windings. Expensive 
lesson for your customer, but I don’t see much choice but to replace.

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net


Maybe not necessarily. I remember asking last year why liquids spilled 
or sprayed on bass strings tend to make them go dead or buzz. Someone 
replied that they don't and that he had cleaned sets of bass strings 
with some sort of solvent with no ill effects.
--David Nereson, RPT