> comagen termite (carpenter ant, so I'm told) can make a meal of > fine instruments. (Newton can attest to this.) They love keybeds, keyframes, legs, bridges and rims. They do NOT like finishes but if there is a ding all the way through to raw wood they are in and you don't know it until the piano floats away into the air as fine dust. Devilishly hard critters to get rid of. -- Newton Hunt Highland Park, NJ mailto:nhunt@jagat.com
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