That's mice

[Elwood Doss]

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Sneak a couple of boxes of D-Con in the pedal trap.  What she doesn't
know, won't hurt her!  Either that or suggest she get some cats to live
in the house so the mice can enter the food chain, rather than being on
the top of it!  Ooooorrrrrr, tell her not to call you back.  Unless you
really clean up the piano-especially the mouse nesting material and
feces, you are going to be continually in danger.  I can imagine what's
under the keys.  Do they seem springy or mushy?  On the other hand if
the mice keep eating the bridle tapes then they will also be destroying
the key felts, hammers, dampers, even the wood on the keys.  Keep you in
a job until you die of some disease spread by mice.

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By the way, I've never tried the screen idea, but if you could identify
all the holes the mice can get through-and they can be pretty small-you
might be able to keep them out.

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One last thing, I'm a member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)-but
not mice!

Joy!

Elwood

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Elwood Doss, Jr. M.M.E.; RPT

Piano Technician/Technical Director

Department of Music

145 Fine Arts Building

The University of Tennessee at Martin

Martin, TN  38238

731/881-1852

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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:55 AM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: That's mice

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Hi y'all,

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I had a job a couple of weeks ago replacing bridle tapes in a 15 year
old Kawai upright.  The old ones had been used as nest material by a
family of mice.  About half of them were completely gone, and others
partially gnawed.  I went back yesterday to tune the piano.

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The people had said that they'd found the mice and removed them, but
guess who'd come back, munching once again on the tapes...

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Nice, nice lady... but hygiene is not her forte, I fear.  Her bird's
food is also the nourishment for aforementioned rodents.  She loves
animals and doesn't want to poison the mice.  I suggested a "humane"
exterminator.

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Has anyone ever used any kind of screening inside an upright to to keep
mice out?  I suspect that no matter what the people do--unless they do a
drastic cleanup, which seems kind of unlikely--the mice will continue to
come back.  Next time, I'll wear a mask!  After hearing about Hantavirus
on this list, I'm a little worried about this sort of thing.

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Dave Stahl


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