Hi Clyde, Mice clean their feet by licking them. The theory is--they don't like red pepper, so they exit the piano. At 01:18 PM 9/17/02 -0400, you wrote: >Friends, > >OK, I'm just curious, but I hope someone can help me anyway. I tuned at >a school today, two Baldwin grands and two Baldwin Hamiltons. Inside >the first studio piano I found what appears to be crushed dried hot >pepper, such as would come from a supermarket in a spice bottle, in >abundance on the keybed where you could see it between the keys, and >also sprinkled around on the bottom board. > >I would have thought that was a prank done by the kids, but when I went >to tune the other studio piano, which is pretty well at the other end of >a fairly large school complex, I found exactly the same thing! Whoever >did it was careful not to put it on top of the keys, where it could have >worked its way into the cracks and caused function problems. > >I done 1000s of pianos, but this is a first for me! I intend to vacuum >it out, but can anyone tell me if a piano tuner may have done this and >for what reason? > >Regards, >Clyde Hollinger, RPT >Lititz, PA, USA > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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