Yamaha: (800)-854-1569 David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "MICHAEL MEZHINSKY" <pghpianotuning at yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 5/28/2008 9:05:29 PM Subject: Re: mouse in piano >Hello everyone, > > Does anybody know were my friend can find new batteries for a Yamaha Piano >tuning scope? Model PT-100, DC12V, 150mA > >Michael Mezhinsky >Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> wrote: .hmmessage P { >margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; >FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Hi Shawn, >The Marshall & Wendell piano, is that the same one I took the action out of to >refurbish? I know Saundra had to clean a Marshall & Wendell also and complained >about it the entire time. it also was a piano that had a mouse problem. I wonder if >that was the one by the back hall-way with the bad finish bubble on the side. >Another mouse encounter happened back in Indiana when my neighbor gave me a >piano she had in her garage. I took it it to give it a home while I took it apart to see >what I could do with it in terms of learning. The pin block was separated from the >frame. It had old rusty strings, loose tuning pins, you name it. It didn't smell awful >oddly enough. I started taking it apart and the next day I decided to take out the >keys. I found a dead critter stuck to the key bed. My wife was pregnant with are >son and I had to open most of the windows in the house. Fortunately, it wasn't too >bad after I cleaned it, but that smell is so hard to get rid of even after the critter is >long gone or dried up. >How do you folks on the list get rid of the mouse odor in a piano? If one doesn't >have an ozone machine, what else can be done to get the odor out of the wood? I >do know that after replacing the hammer rest rail felt, spring rail felt and other felts, >it seems to have had some beneficial affect. Every now and then the odor comes >back. >Marshall >ps. are my e-mails making it through as well? I haven't had too many responses >lately, so I just wanted to make certain I was putting in the right address again. > > >--------------------------------- > Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. Help protect your >kids. >
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