[pianotech] Dampp-Chaser systems - was Tacoma...

[Joe Goss]

Hi, Sorry but I do not buy the mouse story.
Any mouse in our country would have been smart enough to use the pads as a ladder.
It must have died and fell into the tank.
Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ryan Sowers 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 3:04 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Dampp-Chaser systems - was Tacoma...


  If you go through the trouble of installing the "mouse ladder" why not a little diving board and some Jacuzzi jets as well?


  Ryan Sowers


  On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:50 AM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote:

    That's really disgusting!


    My worst mouse extraction so far was one that had died on the bass bridge of a Baldwin vertical (model 6000 I think). Thankfully I could use tweezers, so it wasn't all that bad really. Stank a lot, though!


    A mouse ladder? Sheesh! 


    -- 

    John Formsma, RPT

    Blue Mountain, MS




    On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Joseph Giandalone <rufy at rcn.com> wrote:



      That's a cute story. Here's my best D-C story:


      Horrible stench emanating from studio upright. Investigation reveals mouse who found its way into the reservoir bucket but could not find his way out. If you've never encountered this situation, believe me, you don't want to.


      These people were self-described "conservationists" which (in their definition) meant they refused to use mouse traps in their home. They asked me (and of course I complied) to devise a "mouse ladder" to put inside the bucket. (This was in the day of the taller reservoir buckets.) Also tried to mouse-proof the piano (using physical impediments) and THAT is no piece of cake. Mice can squeeze their little bodies (I don't think any of their internal organs are anchored) into an opening the size of a dime (that's a full-grown one)! I had to build a "cage" around the pedals, inside. Further tragedy was averted.


      Joseph







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  Ryan Sowers, RPT
  Puget Sound Chapter
  Olympia, WA
  www.pianova.net
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