At 10:34 AM 12/20/97 -0700, you wrote: >At 02:36 AM 12/20/97 -0600, you wrote: >>Er, James, just how big would you say these bugs are? >> >>Danny Moore > >Danny, > > Ours were smaller than a grain of small brown rice. They were dark in >color. You never really see the bugs... you'd see the powder under the >entry holes or when you moved the wounded wood. They would leave the >exterior almost un-touched, while munching up the inside. Entry holes were >very small, pencil lead diameter at the max. > >Guy > May a kindly Providence preserve us and our pianos from beasties that munch. Since these little piano-assassins seem to be a tropical problem, would putting the affected wood in a deep-freeze get rid of them? For a piano, a public meat-locker might be required. The "frozen piano" thread revisited! Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "I'm glad that there are at least some things somewhere that I don't have to do today." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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