YES! ----- Original Message ----- From: John Lillico, RPT <staytuned@idirect.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 12:33 AM Subject: One Piece Ivory > Was there ever such a covering as one piece ivory? I've always seen ivory as a "head" and a "tail" with a (usually) visible crack. I've always used this crack to distinguish between ivory and plastic. > > Today, a 75 year old lady tells me her chipped keys on a 1934 Sherlock Manning are ivory! I say they are plastic because there's no separation between head and tail. She says her parents bought the piano when she was nine and, except for a time when she ran away from home at 19 to get married, says that the keys have NEVER been recovered in plastic. > > Sixty per cent of the overhangs are chipped and she thinks they can be repaired like teeth. How can I convince her that these tops are plastic? Or are they? > > John Lillico, RPT, > Oakville ON Canada > >
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