[Carey Carlan]

Laurence Payne lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:26:42 GMT, Carey Carlan
wrote:

On a couple of recent gigs I've had to record pianos with squeaky
pedals. I know that's the domain of the tuner/maintainer guy, but his
neglect doesn't cut it when it's time to record.

Is there a safe and useful spray or liquid I can apply to temporarily
silence the mechanism without causing any permanent mechanical or
cosmetic damage?

Where's the squeak coming from? Piano tuners carry powdered graphite.
I've seen one cure a squeak with washing-up liquid.

As this question is for future gigs, I can't answer. The two recent gigs
had squeaks from the location of the pedals, but I'm looking for a more
general solution.

Graphite sounds reasonable. I would hesitate to put a soapy liquid near a
piano's finish.