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What a rat’s nest!
« on: June 11, 2020, 08:51:44 PM »

Just opened this up to strip it for parts. Anyone else have similar run ins?
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2020, 08:59:11 PM »

Sound damping
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2020, 09:06:18 PM »

If this was just shipped to you, maybe someone stuffed it with the intent to keep any reeds that might shake loose in shipping from getting damaged. I sometimes wish someone had done something like this (but ideally with newspaper etc) when a box arrives here full of loose reeds (and/or blocks) and bent or broken tongues.

Or - if the box had been left open - do you mean it really was a rat's nest where a little critter filled it with insulation or similar?
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2020, 12:07:11 AM »

Not a rat, but for a second I thought I had a dead mouse in this pain-o accordion I'm working on.  Turns out it's a fabric bag filled with pellets (silica gel or whatever) to hopefully control moisture inside the box.  Maybe not a bad idea (until the bag bursts...).

Ratty warm or mousy dry, climate control is the name of the game !  ;D
 
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2020, 01:09:45 AM »

Just one more reason why you don’t want them in your house  ;D
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2020, 08:42:09 AM »

I stupidly bought something similar (a Hohner) from eBay/Portugal and it smelt like a cat had peed on it. And the bellows were patched with electrical tape and the keyboard was hanging off. It was dreadful and a lesson (don’t buy from eBay unless it is under £100 or can be returned). It had little value as an instrument.
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2020, 08:52:24 AM »

Tirpous, what sort of box was that? I'm greatly intrigued by the 2 reedplates tucked under the bellows. At first, I thought they were just loose reeds which had fallen there. But, on closer inspection, they rather look as if they're flat mounted under the bellows folds. Strange indeed!
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2020, 10:06:49 AM »

Tirpous, what sort of box was that? I'm greatly intrigued by the 2 reedplates tucked under the bellows. At first, I thought they were just loose reeds which had fallen there. But, on closer inspection, they rather look as if they're flat mounted under the bellows folds. Strange indeed!

It looks like the bass end from a Dino Baffetti Carnival III which has one set of chord reeds flat mounted.
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2020, 12:03:06 PM »

Just opened this up to strip it for parts. Anyone else have similar run ins?

Looks to be more Steiff than Hohner with all that stuffing  (:)
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2020, 12:11:20 PM »

It’s fairly common for older piano accordions to have the bank of high bass reeds laid flat.
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2020, 12:26:21 PM »

It’s fairly common for older piano accordions to have the bank of high bass reeds laid flat.

Yes, and quite a few diatonics also including many Italian boxes and even some small Hohners like the early Club III
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2020, 12:57:13 PM »

Notice missing air pallet. Just enough room to squeeze into the squeezebox.

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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2020, 01:47:24 PM »

Notice missing air pallet. Just enough room to squeeze into the squeezebox.

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That was my first thought with the OP’s box - missing or non-functioning air pallet to allow access!
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2020, 02:05:33 PM »

OK, well if it's really a rodent nest (wasn't sure at first), maybe I have a professional obligation as a biologist to remind all that inhaled dust from rodent droppings can transmit hantavirus, which can be serious or even fatal. It's rare and its incidence varies regionally but worth mentioning in this international forum. People who work on pianos and organs obviously have to deal with this more frequently than do most box repairmen.

https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/pdf/hps_brochure.pdf

https://news.psu.edu/story/145906/2012/10/09/precautions-hantavirus-urged-when-opening-cleaning-hunting-camps


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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2020, 05:00:32 PM »

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Tirpous, what sort of box was that? I'm greatly intrigued by the 2 reedplates tucked under the bellows. At first, I thought they were just loose reeds which had fallen there. But, on closer inspection, they rather look as if they're flat mounted under the bellows folds. Strange indeed!

It's a 120-bass piano accordion.
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2020, 06:58:41 PM »

OK, well if it's really a rodent nest (wasn't sure at first), maybe I have a professional obligation as a biologist to remind all that inhaled dust from rodent droppings can transmit hantavirus, which can be serious or even fatal. It's rare and its incidence varies regionally but worth mentioning in this international forum. People who work on pianos and organs obviously have to deal with this more frequently than do most box repairmen.

https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/pdf/hps_brochure.pdf

https://news.psu.edu/story/145906/2012/10/09/precautions-hantavirus-urged-when-opening-cleaning-hunting-camps


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remodeling contractors run in to droppings quite a bit. Thank goodness for vacs with a good filter.
Usually there’s  a place to sleep ( where nesting and food scraps eg. Seeds etc. and some poop) and then a place where they do most of their business within a wall, which can be gross.
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Re: What a rat’s nest!
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2020, 11:00:28 PM »

It actually was a rat/mouse nest. One of the side panels of the bass hand box had come off, so the thing had easy access to get in between the bellows frame and the soundboard.
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