Hi Bill, How do you safely clean up the mess? Or is it best to let "sleeping chemicals alone"? At 08:26 AM 5/13/2007 -0400, you wrote: >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 Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner
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