----- Original Message ----- From: "James Perkins" <jimperkins@mac.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Insect Infestations > Hi > One of my customers moved house and left her newish Yamaha C5 for a few > weeks in the new home. > On her return, she found some damage and called me. > > I found that mice had carefully removed all the hammer rest felts one > by one and stored them in a corner behind the action as a nice warm > nest for the winter. > > I was interested that none of the other felts appeared to have been > touched. The blocks were white- could this account for their obvious > attraction? > > > James Perkins > 42 Marlee Road > Parklands > WA 6210 > Australia I don't know about the color, but the mice in Minnesota do the same thing. No other felts a touched....ah..accept for the little trails they leave on them. Paul C
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