G'day Les, The broken springs seem suspiciously like what I've seen in several "mouse affected" pianos. My theory is that the mice lick everything to see if it's edible and the saliva eventually corrodes the metals that they have tasted. The strings could also be affected by them too, they like urinating on them for some reason. I've had several pianos in my shop for restrings and action work resulting from mice. Check the felts for nibbles as well. If they didn't eat much or stay long, there may not be too much other evidence (droppings) If theres lots of normal-mouse-type-food for them at the time of their visit they seem to taste test everything and leave because the other stuff is tastier, if there's a drought however, the piano gets a real going over! Just a thought Cheers Mark Bolsius Bolsius Piano Services Canberra Australia ---------- >From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com> > >Yesterday, opening a 3-year old Yamaha P22, I discovered someone had >"spilled" something in the piano. Wound strings had large sections of >green on them, and regular strings, lots of rust. > >Strange thing is that several jack springs were broken, the broken ends >having turned black, I suppose, from corrosion.
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