Disinfecting piano, reviving bass strings, all with naptha...

[Avery Todd]

And you're referring to what post? I guess I must have missed it.

Avery Todd

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>wrote:

> ....I use beat up, cheap pianos in the back of the van I play piano from,
> for parties, etc.. I like light, small ( but not drop-action ) pianos, and
> got a 1950's Harrington console off someone's porch that smelled terrible
> ( rancid-sweat smell, like a  Salvation Army used clothing store ) and had
> dead bass strings. ( Other than that, a pretty decent instrument. ) Worst of
> all: after playing it I could feel foul-smelling stuff "growing" up my
> sinuses, between my teeth, etc..  Obviously, lots of germs were still living
> in this thing, from the extremely unsanitary "whomever" that owned it
> before. ( I got a nasty sore throat from this "growing stuff", too! )
>   As part of my "bass string rejuvenation" regimen, along with running them
> through the "Dethubb o' mizer", I've been spraying them ( with thick plastic
> behind them, once disconnected from their hich pins ) with non-chlorinated
> brake part cleaner. This works superbly to flush dirt out from between the
> windings, but is extremely solvent to just about everything, and dangerous
> to get on hands, or breathe.
>     So I wondered what solvent I could spray over everythimng inside of
> this piano to kill germs, AND clean the bass strings, somewhat, without
> removing the soundboard finish, disconecting the bass strings, etc..
>     Naptha did the trick! The piano smells very little now, I played it 9
> hours this weekend without getting a sinus or throat infection, the bass
> styrings sound much better and nothing in the piano got dissolved.
>    I removed the action, put on my mask, gloves and goggles, loaded my
> spray gun with naptha, and blasted the action and inside of the piano,
> thoroughly. Rolled back into the van, let "air-out" 2 days and "went to
> town"!
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> Euphonious Thumpe
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