{"id":7346,"date":"2020-05-08T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/news\/how-clean-and-sanitize-keyboard-fazioli-pianos\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:38:59","slug":"how-clean-and-sanitize-keyboard-fazioli-pianos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/news\/how-clean-and-sanitize-keyboard-fazioli-pianos\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO CLEAN AND SANITIZE THE KEYBOARD ON FAZIOLI PIANOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tips to sanitize the keyboard of your Fazioli piano.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On this page, you will find tips on cleaning the keyboard, which is particularly important in these times, especially in places where the instrument is not intended for the exclusive use of a single pianist.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that there are certified keyboard disinfectant cleaning products on the market.<br \/>\nHowever, home-made easy solutions can be used safely and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows the most important rule: We should <strong>always wash our hands thoroughly before touching the piano keyboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nIn this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/falEmESdVsE\">video<\/a><\/strong>, you can see the <strong>cleaning\/sanitizing method<\/strong> suggested by a Fazioli Dealer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/falEmESdVsE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nHis &#8220;recipe&#8221; is as follows:<br \/>\n&#8211; 250ml of water<br \/>\n&#8211; 3 ml of dish detergent<br \/>\n&#8211; 2 ml of disinfectant solution (hand certified sanitizing solution)<\/p>\n<p>\nAs you can see in the video, the liquid should <strong>never be sprayed directly on the keys<\/strong> but <strong>a small amount of liquid should be poured (or sprayed) onto a cloth<\/strong>.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t use a &#8220;horizontal&#8221; movement on the keyboard, but clean <strong>key by key vertically<\/strong> (in the video you can see that very well).<br \/>\nIt\u2019s recommendable to <strong>clean one octave at a time<\/strong>, so you can immediately pass a dry and soft cloth, with the same procedure, to <strong>dry any trace of liquid as soon as possible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After consulting with the manufacturers of our keyboards, we came to the conclusion that <strong>an even simpler solution is equally effective<\/strong>, composed by:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; 30% of &#8220;90\u00b0 denatured alcohol&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; 70% of distilled water<\/strong><br \/>\nWe recommend <strong>NOT to use alcohol concentration higher than 30%.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe cleaning and drying process to be adopted remains the same as shown in the video.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, in order <strong>to avoid damaging the key cover<\/strong>, especially the black keys ebony, it is important <strong>not to rub the surface too vigorously, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nWe hope these indications are useful and invite you to contact us for any clarification if need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips to sanitize the keyboard of your Fazioli piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7339,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7346","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fazioli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}