At 13:27 -0700 17/5/10, Matthew Todd wrote: >This link should work! Anyway, I would appreciate thoughts as to >what this is. The piano is a Kimball. > ><http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4616647986_6f5a441ac5.jpg>http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4616647986_6f5a441ac5.jpg It is a salt or a mixture of salts of copper, commonly called verdigris, caused by chemicals in the atmosphere reacting with the copper in the bronzing powder. This would not happen if the bronzing had been effectively lacquered over with an impermeable lacquer. JD -- ______________________________________________________________________ Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew Dorset DT11 0HX * England Phone: +44 1202 731 031 Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 ______________________________________________________________________
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