This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Sneak a couple of boxes of D-Con in the pedal trap. What she doesn't know, won't hurt her! Either that or suggest she get some cats to live in the house so the mice can enter the food chain, rather than being on the top of it! Ooooorrrrrr, tell her not to call you back. Unless you really clean up the piano-especially the mouse nesting material and feces, you are going to be continually in danger. I can imagine what's under the keys. Do they seem springy or mushy? On the other hand if the mice keep eating the bridle tapes then they will also be destroying the key felts, hammers, dampers, even the wood on the keys. Keep you in a job until you die of some disease spread by mice. =20 By the way, I've never tried the screen idea, but if you could identify all the holes the mice can get through-and they can be pretty small-you might be able to keep them out. =20 One last thing, I'm a member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)-but not mice! Joy! Elwood =20 Elwood Doss, Jr. M.M.E.; RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 _____ =20 From: Piannaman@aol.com [mailto:Piannaman@aol.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:55 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: That's mice =20 Hi y'all, =20 I had a job a couple of weeks ago replacing bridle tapes in a 15 year old Kawai upright. The old ones had been used as nest material by a family of mice. About half of them were completely gone, and others partially gnawed. I went back yesterday to tune the piano. =20 The people had said that they'd found the mice and removed them, but guess who'd come back, munching once again on the tapes... =20 Nice, nice lady... but hygiene is not her forte, I fear. Her bird's food is also the nourishment for aforementioned rodents. She loves animals and doesn't want to poison the mice. I suggested a "humane" exterminator. =20 Has anyone ever used any kind of screening inside an upright to to keep mice out? I suspect that no matter what the people do--unless they do a drastic cleanup, which seems kind of unlikely--the mice will continue to come back. Next time, I'll wear a mask! After hearing about Hantavirus on this list, I'm a little worried about this sort of thing. =20 Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/92/f3/c6/31/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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