How to salvage a smoke damaged piano

[racket]

I acquired a piano(1976 Sohmer) with smoke damage. It still  plays well minus a few off notes and the occasional stuck key(it had these problems before the fire).

My question is this... Should I bag it and ozone it for a few day's to save it from the acidity of the smoke, or can I just clean the exterior, vacuum/blow from what I can from the interior and if the piano can survive a year or so without falling apart, then have it restrung, refelted, tuned and later even worry about having it re-keyed and re-finished? It's been about a month since the fire and there is a fair amount of soot, especially on the outside.

I guess the main point of my question is if I am trying to save it even though I know it would be cheaper to buy a used piano, what is the best way to go about restoring it?

TIA!

[gvans]

I looked into this a while ago (was thinking of buying a smoke-damaged but almost new M & H): the guy you want to talk to is Dave Swartz, an RPT in Minnesota. You may have to dig around the Internet for his phone/website, but he's super knowledgeable and friendly. He's become an expert in this field for some strange reason...

Good luck,

Glenn

[hfmadopter]

All about Dave Swartz services and comments on smoke damaged pianos: https://www.ptg.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=200&MenuKey=Menu12

[racket]

Contacted Dave like everybody suggested. He seems to really know his stuff and has given me a fair amount of advice on what to do and what not to do to take care of the damage.

[hfmadopter]

Contacted Dave like everybody suggested. He seems to really know his stuff and has given me a fair amount of advice on what to do and what not to do to take care of the damage.

Hope it all goes well for you !

[markwaugh]

Dave's advice worked for me. He knows all deeply and perfectly. I had issue with my guitar that got damaged due to smoke.