Klarinet Archive - Posting 001175.txt from 2000/12

From: BEresman@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Moth-eaten pads & moth balls
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:44:34 -0500

Bill Wright wrote, in wresponse to my question:

> <><> Where might I find these [cedar balls]?
>
> Most upscale department stores and clothing stores and drug stores
>sell them.

Thanks, Bill. I'll have to depart from the thrift store circuit and try
one of those "upscale" places. Are we talking third-register kind of
up-scale or only up into the second register...?

Patricia wrote:

>I have put moth balls in a clarinet case when I had an old eefer that had
>been repadded.. just long enough to kill the little vermin. Worked like a
>charm. I left them in the case with the horn out of it for, mmm, say,
maybe
>a week..?

That's fine, except these instruments had not previously been infested.
I'd like to do something to prevent later re-infestation.

And Dave Sandustky wrote:

>I've been leary about using anything made from cedar around the house.
Most
>bugs hate the stuff, but scorpions love it. I even keep a small light with
>"black light" bulb to spot them at night. Once youve been nailed by one of
>these you'll never forget it. As for your nibbled pads, the culprit may
>not be a moth but carpet beetles. I've also seen fire ants eat all the
pads
>out of some new asian made saxes left by overnight in the band hall of a
>neighboring town for display. Others were not touched so there was
something
>in those pads that fire ants had a taste for.

Yow! We haven't seen fire ants (yet) around here, and i don't think we
have a scorpion problem. That's interesting to know, though.

Brent Eresman
YSI Precision Temperature

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