Subject: Please tell me how to get rid of a weird, green, powdery mold
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I have a piano that was externally covered with a bizarre-smelling, bright green powdery organism. I wiped as much as I could off with alcohol, but it still smells weird and sort of dangerous. ( How dangerous is it ??? )
How can I get rid of this ? All I have been able to think of is putting a plastic tent over the piano, and pouring a gallon of lacquer thinner
- or something- into a pot under the tent, in hopes that the fumes will kill the spores ? I might take some of them to the University, too, to try to identify them.
The strange thing about this is that the piano was not in a very humid environment, but the powdery mold grew 1/16 inch deep in places on the case.
Thump
Hey thump,
For once you've stumbled in your own inimitable way on something that is truly dangerous.
This is probably Paris Green, a powder used to combat insects that is loaded with arsenic.
I worked for a piano store in Texas many years ago and quite a few old pianos from out in the "country" had this stuff on the key beds.
Careful my friend
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
Paris green also called Schweinfurt green, an extremely poisonous, bright green powder that was formerly used extensively as a pigment (e.g., in wallpaper) and that is sometimes used as an insecticide or to kill plant fungi; it must be used with great caution because of its poisonous nature. Chemically it is a copper acetoarsenite that may be prepared from arsenic trioxide and copper acetate.
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Tom Driscoll RPT
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:14:41 -0600
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Any pot arround in another room?
Joe Goss [email protected] www.mothergoosetools.com
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