<HTML>In a message dated 8/6/03= 4:09:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cgpiano@humboldt1.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">   In the August issue of the PTG Journal is an article on pag= e 40 introducing a product called "Music Sorb".  It is a silica product = packaged in a pouch which (it is claimed) can stabilize the humidity in a piano. </BLOCKQUOTE> Wouldn't this be the same stuff I find in the bottom of most new Asian p= ianos?  There is always a bag on the bottom board containing little sil= ica beads designed to keep the pianos from getting too humid during shipping= .  I'm assuming "Music Sorb" is probably the same material. Dave Stahl</HTML>