Thank you all very much. I will try anything to fix the problem. Who invented smoking anyway????
David
In The Beginning
Tobacco is a plant that grows natively in North and South America. It is in the same family as the potato, pepper and the poisonous nightshade, a very deadly plant.
The seed of a tobacco plant is very small. A 1 ounce sample contains about 300,000 seeds!
It is believed that Tobacco began growing in the Americas about 6,000 B.C.!
As early as 1 B.C., American Indians began using tobacco in many different ways, such as in religious and medicinal practices.
Tobacco was believed to be a cure-all, and was used to dress wounds, as well as a pain killer. Chewing tobacco was believed to relieve the pain of a toothache!
The New World Discovered
On October 15, 1492, Christopher Columbus was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from the American Indians that he encountered.
Soon after, sailors brought tobacco back to Europe, and the plant was being grown all over Europe.
The major reason for tobacco's growing popularity in Europe was its supposed healing properties. Europeans believed that tobacco could cure almost anything, from bad breath to cancer!
In 1571, A Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes wrote a book about the history of medicinal plants of the new world. In this he claimed that tobacco could cure 36 health problems.
In 1588, A Virginian named Thomas Harriet promoted smoking tobacco as a viable way to get one's daily dose of tobacco. Unfortunately, he died of nose cancer (because it was popular then to breathe the smoke out through the nose).
During the 1600's, tobacco was so popular that it was frequently used as money! Tobacco was literally "as good as gold!"
This was also a time when some of the dangerous effects of smoking tobacco were being realized by some individuals. In 1610 Sir Francis Bacon noted that trying to quit the bad habit was really hard!
In 1632, 12 years after the Mayflower arrived on Plymouth Rock, it was illegal to smoke publicly in Massachusetts! This had more to do with the moral beliefs of the day, than health concerns about smoking tobacco.
In 1760, Pierre Lorillard establishes a company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff. Today, P. Lorillard is the oldest tobacco company in the U.S.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, Jan 1, 2013 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ridding tobacco smell from grand
Thank you all very much. I will try anything to fix the problem. Who invented smoking anyway????
David
----- Original Message -----
From: John Ross
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ridding tobacco smell from grand
Ah, breakdown of rubber products, not much of a problem then.
Thanks.
John Ross
On 2012-12-31, at 11:15 PM, John Ross <jrpiano at bellaliant.net> wrote:
I seem to remember that the ionization process caused some oxidization/corrosion on metal parts down the road.
Am I correct in my recollection?
John Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
On 2012-12-31, at 10:28 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
David
Contact a company that does smoke damage from fires. They will put the piano in a room with an ionization process. It is the process eliminates smoke from fires, So I presume it will do the same with cigarette smoke.
Wim
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lawson <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 3:11 pm
Subject: [pianotech] Ridding tobacco smell from grand
Does anyone have a solution to ridding a grand from over powering tobacco
smell? We have just taken delivery of a Kawai GS-50, reconditioned 10 years
ago, and has been in a smokers home ever since. We have cleaned every part
that is possible, with all sorts of chemicals, even painted the underneath,
both rim and soundboard with shellac, all to no avail. The front string pads
are certainly a source of the stink, but how does one clean or disinfect
them without rusting the strings? The action too is as bad as the rest of
it.
We have recovered the music desk liner and the stool, which certainly
helped.
I would appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks.
David Lawson Wangaratta OZ
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