hot pepper

Alan R. Barnard mathstar@salemnet.com
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:42:01 -0500


Someone's idea of mouseproofing?

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: hot pepper


> 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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