Recipe for trouble

[Wimblees@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-02-05 00:30:42 EST, you write:

>Dear Friends,
>
>Ingredients:
>
>1 large helping of cold weather
>1 large field
>several small field mice
>1 warm and toasty trailer house
>1 energetic Scotty dog
>1 35-year-old Aeolian spinet
>1 sweet, elderly, disabled, widowed lady
>1 piano technician
>
>Take large helping cold weather and add quickly to field until mice decide
>to take refuge in trailer house. Add 1 Scotty dog to trailer house.  Mix
>well!   When Scotty dog begins chasing (and catching) said rodents, take
>one (or more) enterprising rodents and mix well with spinet.  Allow mixture
>to sit for several days (or weeks, or however much time you desire until
>mouse feels urge to make a nest in said piano).  When bored mouse has
>sharpened its teeth sufficiently on surrounding piano keys, allow rodent to
>disappear.  When desired results are achieved, have elderly lady call local
>piano technician and complain about the sluggish action of spinet.  
>
>Seriously folks, the above story is true.  I encountered my first piano key
>that had been chewed all the way through, and I want to make the sweet lady
>happy by fixing her beloved piano.
>
>Several questions:
>1.  What type of wood is best for making a new key?
>2.  Where can I obtain some of this wood?
>3.  Any hints or warnings involved in making a replacement key?
>
>Thanks!
>David
>
>

If the mice are still present, try molding a key out of plasitc. I have never
had to make a whole key from scratch. Maybe someone else has done it before.
Good luck.

Willem Blees