Call an exterminator. Most guarantee their work. Al - High Point, NC On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Mark Davis wrote: > Dear List > > I do some tuning work for a piano retail dealer who unfortunately does not restore/rebuild pianos to the standard one would like. I have often tried to point them in the right direction but as things are, if you get away with something and you can make money out of it, why should you change. Unfortunately this is the thinking of this particular dealership. I have recently come across the clothes moth. I noticed a few months ago a few little moths flying around in the showroom. I did not make anything of it as I have never come across these little moths. Somewhere in the back of my mind there was a niggle about it, but I chose to ignore it (silly me). > > I then was asked in early December last year to regulate one of the grand pianos. On opening the piano and pulling the mechanism out I found that the key frame felt was riddled with clothes worm and also a few moths came flying out too. The action stop block cushion felt was almost completely eaten away. I now know that it is a clothes moth as I went and looked on the internet as to what one calls this type of insect and moth. > > I purchased some insect repellent on request of the dealer and put it in and around the showroom. I also cleaned the piano out as thoroughly as I could and replaced the key frame material and action stop block with new felt. The problem is these mothes are still flying around and I see new worms (they make a felt casing around themselves) in the piano. On further inspection today I have found clothes worm in two other pianos. It really is a sad story but I am not able to change people and I need the work to. These cloth mothes like dark areas, rooms and spaces and lay eggs on piano parts and walls, and it goes without saying that one cannot see the eggs with the eye (or atleast I haven’t seen them yet), they hatch and then begin chewing all the material, clothes and carpet up. > > My question is, how does one eradicate clothes worm/moth effectively? > Thank you > Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110202/d90e9ad9/attachment.htm>
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