[pianotech] 2 Things

[Marcel Carey]

I've had good results with moth balls. It seems the camphor is not an odour the mice like to live around.

Marcel Carey
 


To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:49:05 -0400
From: wimblees at aol.com
Subject: Re: [pianotech] 2 Things

Most people don't understand that the property on which the house they are living in was home to the mice long before they got there. Just because a building is put up in a field, doesn't mean the mice have left. That's why rich people in beautiful homes out in the country are flabbergasted  when I tell them there are mice inside their piano. 

There is nothing that can prevent mice. Traps will kill the ones that are there, and a cat in the house will deter them from scurrying around at night, but only if the cat is interested in doing some hunting at night.  


Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sat, Jul 25, 2009 5:42 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] 2 Things


Brian Doepke wrote: 
 
> Second, is there anything that can be sprinkled or left inside a piano > that will deter mice from returning? 
 
Yes, either cats, or some lethal substance that will as likely kill all the other household residents as readily as the returning mice. 
 
Or, someone could be permanently stationed at the piano with a hammer or ice pick, to interact with the rodentia up close and personal, as they manifest. 
 
It's tough to win against mice, short of a scorched earth policy, since they're inherently smarter than us. 
Ron N 




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