Cleaning

Photos of the Cleaning in Progress - Page 3

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Here is the pad on the middle sized handle being used in the mid-range of the piano.

Here's another tiny vacuum attachment which can fit between many of the mid-range strings.

Here's the largest pad on the longest handle, reaching under both the bass and treble strings from the lid hinge side of the piano. Access is limited depending on how the piano is located with respect to walls and how long the piano is, but one way or another, the entire soundboard should be accessible.

The soundboard area on the right has had a "first round" cleaning. The pad is in the midst of dust.

Using a clean paintbrush, the dust can be brushed off of the bridges and the felt under the strings, and vacuumed up.

Notice the difference between the wood and felt that has been cleaned and those areas which haven't.
Here's the inside of the piano with the action still out, after it has had its final vacuuming. (For those of you who are curious, those are the damper underlevers and damper wires you can see at the back.)

Sorry for the imperfect quality of this photo! It is supposed to demonstrate how nice the piano looks "after". Below is the "before" view again.

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