Green Stuff

[Tom Driscoll]

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Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:45 PM
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Subject: RE: Green Stuff



Guy, list,

Does anyone know what some kind of green powder inside an older
Acrosonic might be? I assume it's something to kill the "pests". It's
on the back end of the keys, on the hammers and the top of the
dampers. I decided I didn't want to take a chance but would like to
know what it might be. It's sort of a Kelly green in color.

Avery
	
	Avery
	This may be a product called "Paris Green". I worked @Wadley
Piano in Dallas in the late 70's and saw lots of this stuff in older
pianos. The store owner (The late Brookin Wadley) told me they used it
for Critter control in the "old days". 
	I don't know its composition but caution might be in order.
	Tom Driscoll




Avery,
	Part Two: Infoplease.com and TeacherVision.com both have
reference to "Paris Green" I paraphrase from both sites as follows:
	
	<Emerald green poisonous powder produced from arsenic trioxide
and copper sulfate .used as pigment, insecticide and wood preservative.
Must be used with great caution due to its poisonous nature.>
	
	Allrighty then!
	Can you say mask, gloves, Hepa vac? Either this stuff isn't as
bad as it sounds or I'm really lucky cause I saw it by the bucket full
twenty five years ago!
	Tom Driscoll RPT