baking soda

[Elian Degen]

Hi,

Are you sure it was baking soda ?

The only thing I heard about baking soda is that end odor.

Here where I live people uses Boric Acid ( powder ), looks like baking soda,
I found a lot in pianos, and they use it to kill cocroaches, it seems this
substance damages their digestive organs, it works slow, but it works.

Elian


>Friends:
>
>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
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