troglodytes

[gordon stelter]

Dear Mr.Avery,
    That comment was specifically designed for those
few whose heads are in the cave located in their
Southern Hemisphere, who "poo-poo" the whole very
serious issue of the health hazards we may create for
customers, in eagerness for their cash, by ignoring
the real risks associated with mouse feces. Surely
you, of all people, would trust information provided
by the Government on this issue ???????
   Jesus said: What does it profit a man to gain the
world, yet lose his own soul ? " and I live by that.
If a  piano is too contaminated to be healthy for a 
person to have in their house, I'll tell them and
refuse to work on it. Besides becoming hospitalized
and spitting up blood after tuning one such piano,
there is the issue that the more money someone spends
on a  piano, the more attached they become to it. And
they may  force their child to practice on it, kicking
the keys ( and air ) up and down directly over the
keybed, the most likely area of contamination ( see
the proscription in the article about "aerosolized
contamination" ) and then the child will put their
fingers in their mouth, pick their nose, etc.. 
    I don't want that on my soul.
    It is a  very serious and common temptation for
tuners to work on pianos that should, for health
reasons, be seriously cleaned, totally restored or
trashed. I enjoy the beautiful music pianos create as
much as anyone. But humans are more valuable, in God's
sight. I have offered a number of solutions to this
problem, here, and, quite frankly, have been assailed
with a  lot of extremely un-Godly ridicule. That, as I
sense it, is the nervous response of tuners who don't
want to admit to themselves that they have been guilty
of aiding their customers in becoming attached to
boxes of filth that posea serious health threat.
According to a scientist I spoke with at UGA, there
are 142 dangerous diseases that are spread by rodents.
Not just "hantavirus."

Peace,
      Thump


P.S. Most of the people on this list are not
"troglodytes". ( At least I hope not! ) 
 


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