<html> <head> <title>Re: [CAUT] Critter-damaged balance punchings in Yamaha P-22s</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> </head> <body> <p>I remember the techs in Cuba using cayenne pepper or something like that to keep termites out...I wonder if something along that lines might work with moths?<br /><br />David Ilvedson, RPT<br />Pacifica, CA 94044<br /><br /></p> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr />Original message<br />From: "Nancy Salmon" <nmsalmon@gmail.com> </nmsalmon@gmail.com><br />To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> </caut@ptg.org><br />Received: 5/14/2007 8:49:52 AM<br />Subject: Re: [CAUT] Critter-damaged balance punchings in Yamaha P-22s<br /><br /> <div>I don't use any chemicals in a home. I even ask about the cedar spray since so many are allergic to cedar. I take the action outside to blow it out. I vacuum the cabinet thoroughly. If it's kept clean for several visits I have seen no bug reinfestation. Damaged felt has to be replaced. Hammers are usually the last to be attacked because they're dense. If there are tunnels in the hammers, ideally they are replaced. </div> <div>I received tools and supplies from several retiring tuners in my area. In one batch the felt & paper was preserved with what smelled like mountain lion urine; could not get rid of it; had to toss it. Another tuner used ground coffee. Seemed to work, felt was perfect and not too smelly. <br />Nancy Salmon RPT</div> <div>Frostburg State U.<br /> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On Mon, 14 May 2007 07:53:42, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don</b> <<a href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca">pianotuna@accesscomm.ca</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Bill,<br /><br />How do you safely clean up the mess? Or is it best to let "sleeping<br />chemicals alone"? <br /><br />At 08:26 AM 5/13/2007 -0400, you wrote:<br />>Some technicians here in the Carolinas who shall remain unnamed found a<br />>PERMANENT solution.  It may be harder than catching a mountain lion to find<br />>the insecticide as its distribution as an insecticide was outlawed in the <br />>1960's or '70's.  If you open a piano that has grayish-white powder under<br />>the keys, be cautious and do not taste.  It could be arsenate of lead (a<br />>once-common garden insecticide) mixed with paris green (also an arsenic <br />>compound, added to disguise the other, which was pink).<br />><br />>I ran across another piano with this about a month ago.<br />><br />>Bill Maxim, RPT<br />Regards,<br />Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T .<br />Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat<br /><br />mailto:<a href="mailto:pianotuna@yahoo.com">pianotuna@yahoo.com</a>      <a href="http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/">http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/</a><br /><br />3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 <br />306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner<br /></blockquote> </div><br /> </div> </body> </html>