troglodytes

[Avery]

Thump,

You're late. All that is now over and done with!

Besides, I haven't had to deal with mice anything,
since I moved out of West Texas! :-D

Mr. Avery

At 05:16 PM 6/12/2006, you wrote:
>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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