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Piano Board => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: yohankwon on May 21, 2013, 03:22:26 AM

Title: bug entered my piano...yuck!
Post by: yohankwon on May 21, 2013, 03:22:26 AM
what should I do?
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Post by: lighthand045 on May 21, 2013, 03:24:43 AM
How?
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Post by: j_menz on May 21, 2013, 03:26:34 AM
Step 1)  Go get a shoe.

Step 2) Play something loud and atonal. Stockhausen if you have any.

Step 3) When insect exits and runs onto the floor/your arm/your leg  whack it hard with the shoe from step 1.


EDIT:

If it's as big as this, replace the shoe in step 1 with a baseball bat (or given you're in the US, the biggest gun in your kitchen drawer)

(https://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01416/Weta-Cricket2_1416306a.jpg)
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Post by: yohankwon on May 21, 2013, 03:34:02 AM
scarred for life
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Post by: j_menz on May 21, 2013, 03:38:36 AM
you literally freaked me out with that picture....scarred for life

LOL - it's a thing called a Weta from New Zealand.  If it makes you feel better, it's vegetarian:

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/01/article-2068547-0F02AA4600000578-402_634x436.jpg)
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Post by: birba on May 21, 2013, 03:42:46 AM
OMG!    :o. And i thought those flying cockroaches in tokyo during the summer were bad.  The second picture is actually sort of cute.  I could never kill it.
Last year i had a mouse in my piano.  A nightmare.
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Post by: lighthand045 on May 21, 2013, 03:46:34 AM
Guess you can't use the vaccum cleaner for that situation  :(.
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Post by: j_menz on May 21, 2013, 03:57:34 AM
Last year i had a mouse in my piano.  A nightmare.

Anything like this one?

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Post by: starlady on May 21, 2013, 03:57:43 AM
 :o That is NOT what I want to see first thing in the morning over my coffee....although that's better than seeing it IN my coffee. 

Anyway,  if the OP's bug is bug-sized rather than dog-sized,  a vaccuum cleaner with the narrowest nozzle should get it out.  Good Luck, s.
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Post by: birba on May 21, 2013, 05:48:33 AM
Anything like this one?


pretty close.
I love this classic.  Did you ever notice at the beginning tom is actually playing the right notes?
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Post by: j_menz on May 21, 2013, 06:00:43 AM
pretty close.
I love this classic.  Did you ever notice at the beginning tom is actually playing the right notes?

No I hadn't - but you're right. Gotta love that attention to detail.

Now I'm going to have to check all the other cartoon versions of this to see if they're as picky.
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Post by: ted on May 21, 2013, 07:47:49 AM
I live in Auckland and I find it hard to imagine anyone being frightened of a weta; matter of fact there was one in the garden the other day. Same with Avondale spiders. Hundreds of them were exported from the Auckland suburb of Avondale for the film Arachnophobia. The sight of people screaming at these delightful, completely harmless creatures rendered the movie too silly for words.
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Post by: johnmar78 on May 21, 2013, 08:02:51 AM
step 4 , put it in a frying pan add some fish source and sprinkle of garlic  and chilli.; fry it it a slow heat...now it becomes a delicious lobster insect. ;D
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Post by: j_menz on May 22, 2013, 12:45:38 AM
Same with Avondale spiders. Hundreds of them were exported from the Auckland suburb of Avondale for the film Arachnophobia.

Another Australian export you kiwis have appropriated as your own.  Here (where they are native) we call them Huntsman Spiders.  I was awoken one morning by one perched on my shoulder - I know they're harmless, but it still gave me a start.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Huntsman-spider-in-hand.jpg/220px-Huntsman-spider-in-hand.jpg)

step 4 , put it in a frying pan add some fish source and sprinkle of garlic  and chilli.; fry it it a slow heat...now it becomes a delicious lobster insect. ;D

Hmmm.... crunchy!!
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Post by: ted on May 22, 2013, 06:41:10 AM
They came over with the timber used to build the Avondale racecourse grandstand in the forties, I think. The mystery is that in seventy years they have never strayed beyond the suburb of Avondale. I used to keep a couple in a fishbowl when I was younger. They can survive on moist cotton wool for months. I felt sorry for them and let them out. The next day I saw my neighbour swearing and brandishing an axe in his back garden. He said he caught sight of a terrible spider. I didn't enlighten him.