<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: =
Verdana"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol=
e_document
face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3>
<DIV>Hi y'all,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I had a job a couple of weeks ago replacing bridle tapes in a 15 year o=
ld
Kawai upright. The old ones had been used as nest material by a family=
of
mice. About half of them were completely gone, and others partially
gnawed. I went back yesterday to tune the piano.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The people had said that they'd found the mice and removed them, but gu=
ess
who'd come back, munching once again on the tapes...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Nice, nice lady... but hygiene is not her forte, I fear. Her bird=
's
food is also the nourishment for aforementioned rodents. She loves ani=
mals
and doesn't want to poison the mice. I suggested a "humane"
exterminator.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Has anyone ever used any kind of screening inside an upright to to keep=
mice out? I suspect that no matter what the people do--unless they do =
a
drastic cleanup, which seems kind of unlikely--the mice will continue to com=
e
back. Next time, I'll wear a mask! After hearing about Hantaviru=
s on
this list, I'm a little worried about this sort of thing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>