baking soda

[Joe & Penny Goss]

To Remove Mice Or Smoke Smells?
Joe

> Ken's story reminded me that this past week I removed the bottom panel
> of a console to find two open boxes of baking soda plus four shallow
> containers of presumably the same stuff.  The owners weren't home, but
> it looked like it had been put there pretty recently.  This was the
> first time I had come across this and was a little mystified.  Is this
> stuff supposed to keep the piano dry, kill moths, or what?  I'm
> curious.  At least it's getting more and more rare to find an empty
> quart jar down there, which was the piano humidifier's predecessor, I
> reckon.
> 
> Clyde Hollinger
>