Pianos I have come across with "white powder" have been Ratex - rat poison, so maybe you are correct. Brian Lawson IC PTG, MPT Johannesburg, South Africa I was in a second hand store and they had a Story&Clark it was full of white powder I wouldn't touch it, I think I read somewhere that it could be poison . I felt real dumb when he said someone had told him they put baby powder to dry it out { not obvious signs of moisture
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