[CAUT] Critter-damaged balance punchings in Yamaha P-22s

[Don]

Hi Bill,

How do you safely clean up the mess? Or is it best to let "sleeping
chemicals alone"?

At 08:26 AM 5/13/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Some technicians here in the Carolinas who shall remain unnamed found a 
>PERMANENT solution.  It may be harder than catching a mountain lion to find 
>the insecticide as its distribution as an insecticide was outlawed in the 
>1960's or '70's.  If you open a piano that has grayish-white powder under 
>the keys, be cautious and do not taste.  It could be arsenate of lead (a 
>once-common garden insecticide) mixed with paris green (also an arsenic 
>compound, added to disguise the other, which was pink).
>
>I ran across another piano with this about a month ago.
>
>Bill Maxim, RPT 
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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