[pianotech] mouse contamination from the dark side

[Ron Nossaman]

On 7/30/2012 7:21 AM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:

> P.S. I once had a GORGEOUS 1890's Everett upright ( with "bowling alley"
> keybed, etc.) with little tabs cast into the back of the pedals,
> pointing downward, so that even when in the "up position", no access was
> granted to rodents! How many MILLIONS of pianos could have been saved,
> if this cheap, minute feature had been used!

Mice will, and have cheerfully bypassed all forms of pedal shields, 
climbed a nice rib ramp to the nearest nose bolt hole, and squeezed or 
chewed right on in.

PS: I think by now, thanks to endless repetition through years and years 
on this list, most everyone still living gets it about the Paris Green, 
or can be informed with one short sentence. Hanta virus, in spite of it 
also being reported many times with authoritative sources to have a very 
short survival potential without a live host, continues to be the 
considered (intuitively, apparently, whatever the evidence to the 
contrary)the scariest and more dangerous. So Hazmat up for everything, 
or decline everything, but yet another statement of the same facts 
concerning both ought to suffice.

Ron N