Ink on keytops

[Wimblees@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-01-24 13:47:42 EST, you write:

>I was called by a store not too long ago to do something about a used piano
>they received as a trade-in.  The former owner had identified each key with
>a marker of some kind.  I don't know if it was a magic marker.  I removed
>the markings with common, ordinary hair spray.  I had read somewhere that
>hair spray will remove ink pen markings from vinyl chairs so I thought it
>was worth a try.  Anyhow, it worked in this particular case.
>
>Ted Simmons
>
>>Naptha will take gummy stuff off plastic keytops. There is niothing,
however
>>that takes majic markers off ivory keytops.
>>
>>
>>Willem Blees  RPT



Thanks, Ted, for that tip. But were the keytops plastic or ivory? Since I
mentioned ivory keys, I presume they were. Isn't hairspray made up mostly of
laquer?

Willem Blees RPT