Insect Infestations

[Farrell]

Nope. I worked on an Aeolian spinet recently and these mice clearly preferred green front rail felt!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Perkins" <jimperkins@mac.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: Insect Infestations


> Hi
> One of my customers moved house and left her newish Yamaha C5 for a few 
> weeks in the new home.
> On her return, she found some damage and called me.
> 
> I found that mice had carefully removed all the hammer rest felts one 
> by one and stored them in a corner behind the action as a nice warm 
> nest for the winter.
> 
>   I was interested that none of the other felts appeared to have been 
> touched. The blocks were white- could this account for their obvious 
> attraction?
> 
> 
> James Perkins
> 42 Marlee Road
> Parklands
> WA 6210
> Australia
> 
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