I have a church client with a Baldwin Hamilton needing new hammers (which have been ordered) because the felts are coming unglued. They also have some mold on the inside of the piano. It’s not a great amount, but I haven’t a clue as to how to deal with the problem. They have problems with 3-4 other pianos as well. Newly installed dampp chasers should stop it, and changes to their AC should lower humidity to well within tolerable limits (56% today, as opposed to 75% a few weeks ago). How do I deal with this problem, other than tell them the piano is shot, or make sure the outside is spotless? Thanks Les bartlett Les If the mold is on case parts that you can easily get to, go the hardware store and buy some mold cleaner in a spray bottle, usually found in the bathroom cleaner isle. Follow the directions on the bottle. If the mold is behind strings, or in hard to reach areas, you might need to do some creative ways to in there with the mold cleaner on a rag. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 5:03 pm Subject: [pianotech] mold I have a church client with a Baldwin Hamilton needing new hammers (which have been ordered) because the felts are coming unglued. They also have some mold on the inside of the piano. It’s not a great amount, but I haven’t a clue as to how to deal with the problem. They have problems with 3-4 other pianos as well. Newly installed dampp chasers should stop it, and changes to their AC should lower humidity to well within tolerable limits (56% today, as opposed to 75% a few weeks ago). How do I deal with this problem, other than tell them the piano is shot, or make sure the outside is spotless? Thanks Les bartlett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100810/0228df79/attachment.htm>
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