[pianotech] Swine flu "prevention"?

[wimblees at aol.com]

Tom



At UA there was a graduate student who would rub down the keys of pianos she played with alcohol, including the piano in her professor's studio. After I while I noticed a?cloudy film on the cheek blocks and fall board.?I asked her to stop doing it. She didn't, but was more careful when she wiped down the keys. That film can be removed with steel wool, but it still looks bad.?



Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Mililani, Oahu, HI
808-349-2943
Author of: 
The Business of Piano Tuning
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 4:00 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Swine flu "prevention"?


When my wife taught piano, during flu season she would wipe down the Yamaha keys with alcohol between students. That might be good for a piano in a professor's studio but not workable in practice rooms, unless students bring their own cleaning kit. Maybe there could be hand sanitizers at the entrance to each room, away from the pianos.?
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Tom Cole?
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Jim Busby wrote:?
> All,?
>?
> The Dean at Snow College just asked if there is anything that can be sprayed on the piano keys to kill germs and avoid passing swine flu around. Any thoughts? I guess it's good they asked me, before hosing down the pianos with Lysol...?
>?
> Thanks.?
>?
> Jim Busby?
> BYU and Snow College?
> 
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