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

[Don]

Hi Bill,

I don't think I'd want to chance arsenic powder to the tender mercies of a
vaccuum cleaner bag.

At 08:38 AM 5/19/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Don,
>
>I opened an old Kimball yesterday that had the same problem (YUK!)
>
>If not replacing the felt/cloth, I just vacuum up all I can get of the 
>powder.  Not much else one can do as the stuff gets down into the fabric. 
>At least the fabric is safe from any repeated infestation.  And the customer 
>very rarely gets down into the works of the piano, so poisoning is not a 
>foreseeable problem, and it's not like hantavirus that can get through the 
>vacuum cleaner bag into the air.
>
>Bill
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
>To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Critter-damaged balance punchings in Yamaha P-22s
>
>
>> 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
>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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