<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Pat Neely wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font size=-1>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</font></blockquote> <p><br>I found this once in a piano, an old antique upright.  It was full of the stuff, particularly in the keybed- what a mess!  I think the idea was to "keep the piano dry", one of those old wives tales like putting a jar of water in the bottom is supposed to provide humidify control.  Pay it no mind and clean the mess up. <p>Rob Goodale, RPT <br>Las Vegas, NV </body> </html>