Some technicians here in the Carolinas who shall remain unnamed found a PERMANENT solution. It may be harder than catching a mountain lion to find the insecticide as its distribution as an insecticide was outlawed in the 1960's or '70's. If you open a piano that has grayish-white powder under the keys, be cautious and do not taste. It could be arsenate of lead (a once-common garden insecticide) mixed with paris green (also an arsenic compound, added to disguise the other, which was pink). I ran across another piano with this about a month ago. Bill Maxim, RPT
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