I had a customer bring in several crates containing a Wurlitzer
Concert Flute.  He wanted to know if they could be restored.  On
looking, I found several of them to be chewed up in the throats.  He
explained that the crates were left open while the organ was stored.
Rats ate them!

If you go to the trouble to crate pipes, keep them closed or get a good
cat!  We have a lot of cats on staff here.

I would normally replace the face board on these pipes but "these say
Wurlitzer on them".  The owner opted to use poplar inlays to rebuild
the throats to the original specifications instead.  I will match the
grain and density of the original poplar and make inlays to repair the
rat bites.

Victoria Webb -- Seventails Productions
13815 Inglewood Ave., Hawthorne, California  90250
http://www.seventails.com

 [ See  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/rats.jpg   -- Robbie