Ink on keytops

[Ted Simmons]

   Sorry, Will.  I didn't catch the 'ivory' part of your post.  These keys
were plastic. I don't know if it will work on ivory but you might test an
old piece of ivory first. It's worth a try.  I'm curious enough to do the
test also.  I have a can of hair spray in front of me and while it doesn't
specifically state that it contains lacquer, one or more of the ingredients
may be similar to lacquer.  Here are the ingredients in Consort extra hold:
SD Alcohol 40, isobutane, butyl ester of pvm/ma copolymer, aminomethyl
propanol, dimethyl phthalate.  No lacquer mentioned.  Any chemists out
there?

Ted Simmons

>>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
>
>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