Complete Grand cleaning

[Stéphane Collin]

Hi Ed.

I use water - vinegar solution routinely for cleaning the soundboards, up 
till now.  Isn't it so that a poison can be a cure, at the right dosis ?  I 
find it very efficient, and I try to avoid touching the strings with the 
damp part of the rag, and I wipe immediately the soundboard with a dry rag, 
and apart from the scratches that are still there, it leaves the soundboard 
surface the way I like it.  No soundboard, uptill now, spontaneously popped 
up from the rim after cleaning this way.  And when I just want that, it 
takes me much more effort and lots, lots of water - vinegar to achieve (and 
a crane to lift the plate).
Do you have a better way for cleaning the soundboard ?

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin.


>     There is nothing to be gained by putting acid on the soundboard and
> plate!!!  Vinegar is ascetic acid and I don't know of anything on a piano 
> it is
> good for, except breaking down hide glue joints.
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html