Plastic Keytops

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Plastic Keytops
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 11:12 AM
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Carefully putting on my asbestos suit, I must (strongly) disagree
with the
> practice of highly polishing keytops and/or sharps.
> 
Horace, 
	Are you saying you _sweat_ when you play?  That you don't appreciate
the puddles of sweat that  those glistening white plastics make
during performance?  That ivory would "absorb", as Leonard put it? Is
that cool cold touch lost?  The however slightly buffed plastic when
fingernails touch is translated to a grating edge in mind to teeth
tingling distraction? And washing your hands makes it worse?  Well
maybe the soap was wrong. Ah talcum. I  don't perform but when the
performer asks, what can I say?  Bring back ivory. Bring back the
Elephants. Its like clipping toe nails, is'n it?

Richard Trimming the Excess  (As If)