Termite solutions?

[BSimon1234@AOL.COM]

Dave wrote;
<<bagging and de-oxygenating termites
in the piano ...without damaging the instrument?>>

If you must, why not try dry ice? After bagging the piano with polyethylene
sheeting, taped completely closed, use a vacuum cleaner to suck out most of
the air, then drop in two ot three pounds of dry ice.  One pound of dry ice
produces 8 cubic feet of CO2 gas at room temperature, but a concentration of
even 50 % would kill every bug.. including moths and larva.  They cannot live
in it any better than you can,  the little air breathers. Leave it for a day.

On the other hand, you could do what is normal and stop them at the  source,
namely the nest in the ground, and whatever is in the piano will leave or die.
Although there are a few species of termites that actually live in the wood
itself, most live in soil and need a water source. They are just visiting the
piano.

Incidentally, two or three years ago a village in Africa was killed by CO2.
Every person, animal, flea and fly. It was situated below a large dead lake,
the lower levels of which were supersaturated with carbonic acids and CO2. A
landslide went into the lake, stirring it up in a big way, and it produced an
outgassing of the CO2 like a champagne bottle frothing. CO2, being heavier
than air, ran down the slope in a 10 foot deep layer, a quarter mile wide, and
killed everything that breathed air. Believe it or not, - it was not the first
time this had happened.

Bill Simon
Phoenix