hot pepper

Don pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:40:46 -0600


Hi Clyde,

Mice clean their feet by licking them. The theory is--they don't like red
pepper, so they exit the piano.

At 01:18 PM 9/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>OK, I'm just curious, but I hope someone can help me anyway.  I tuned at
>a school today, two Baldwin grands and two Baldwin Hamiltons.  Inside
>the first studio piano I found what appears to be crushed dried hot
>pepper, such as would come from a supermarket in a spice bottle, in
>abundance on the keybed where you could see it between the keys, and
>also sprinkled around on the bottom board.
>
>I would have thought that was a prank done by the kids, but when I went
>to tune the other studio piano, which is pretty well at the other end of
>a fairly large school complex, I found exactly the same thing!  Whoever
>did it was careful not to put it on top of the keys, where it could have
>worked its way into the cracks and caused function problems.
>
>I done 1000s of pianos, but this is a first for me!  I intend to vacuum
>it out, but can anyone tell me if a piano tuner may have done this and
>for what reason?
>
>Regards,
>Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>Lititz, PA, USA
>
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>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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