[pianotech] Damaged Hammers

David Doremus algiers_piano at bellsouth.net
Wed Nov 5 07:44:21 PST 2008


Paul T Williams wrote:
>
> Maybe moth larve.  Do they expell stuff as they grow?
>
> Paul
Moths leave a dark powdery stuff, not really a urine stain. These 
hammers look like moth damage, because they will burrow into the felt 
like wee termites and eat the insides first, but I'd also expect to find 
little tubular cocoons, small but fairly visible, hanging anywhere they 
do not get disrupted. Maybe there was a mouse and/or moth infestation 
that someone cleaned up but left the damaged parts due to lack of money?

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--Dave

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