mouse in piano

[David Ilvedson]

Yamaha:  (800)-854-1569

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "MICHAEL MEZHINSKY" <pghpianotuning at yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 5/28/2008 9:05:29 PM
Subject: Re: mouse in piano


>Hello everyone,
>   
>  Does anybody know were my friend can find new batteries for a Yamaha Piano 
>tuning scope?  Model PT-100, DC12V, 150mA
>   
>Michael Mezhinsky

>Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> wrote:      .hmmessage P  {  
>margin:0px;  padding:0px  }  body.hmmessage  {  FONT-SIZE: 10pt;  
>FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma  }    Hi Shawn,
>The Marshall & Wendell piano, is that the same one I took the action out of to 
>refurbish?  I know Saundra had to clean a Marshall & Wendell also and complained 
>about it the entire time.  it also was a piano that had a mouse problem. I wonder if 
>that was the one by the back hall-way with the bad finish bubble on the side.  

>Another mouse encounter happened back in Indiana when my neighbor gave me a 
>piano she had in her garage. I took it it to give it a home while I took it apart to see 
>what I could do with it in terms of learning.  The pin block was separated from the 
>frame. It had old rusty strings, loose tuning pins, you name it.  It didn't smell awful 
>oddly enough.  I started taking it apart and the next day I decided to take out the 
>keys.  I found a dead critter stuck to the key bed.  My wife was pregnant with are 
>son and I had to open most of the windows in the house.  Fortunately, it wasn't too 
>bad after I cleaned it, but that smell is so hard to get rid of even after the critter is 
>long gone or dried up.  

>How do you folks on the list get rid of the mouse odor in a piano?  If one doesn't 
>have an ozone machine, what else can be done to get the odor out of the wood?  I 
>do know that after replacing the hammer rest rail felt, spring rail felt and other felts, 
>it seems to have had some beneficial affect.  Every now and then the odor comes 
>back.  

>Marshall
>ps. are my e-mails making it through as well?  I haven't had too many responses 
>lately, so I just wanted to make certain I was putting in the right address again. 
> 

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