How To Clean a Piano

I am willing to bet none of you had so much fun this week. : P

Step One: Open Lid and Find Massive Dust and Debris



As you can see, there was a lot of debris under the strings, and dust everywhere.



Step Two: Remove Keyboard

I had to have help doing this, as I've never taken a baby grand apart before, and it's not reccomended when you don't know what you're doing. Hammers can break and all that.



So the band teacher came to my room and took the keyboard out, setting it aside so we could clean the box.

Step 3: Rev Up the Shop Vac

Here's the box without the keyboard--kind of funny to see it empty.



And finally, here's the band teacher wielding the Shop Vac, blowing all of the debris out from under the strings. The dust flew, I sneezed like mad, we both squinted our eyes against the onslaught. Then we switched the Shop Vac to the "suck" mode and cleaned up all that flying dust.



Anyway, there's the pictures. It was definitely an adventure!