Keytop Mat'l, thickness

[Dick Beaton]

Good way to go.  You need to know that Steinway ivorys are a bit longer than
most others.
Dick RPT MT


----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Anderson <greg@planetbeagle.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Keytop Mat'l, thickness + sspppppppelllllling


> At 08:36 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Walter Gramza wrote:
> >... and ivory is outlawed and if available would be so costly to us as
> >the technician that we might have to take out a second mortgage on our
> >houses to pay for the ivory and the customer would never be willing to
pay
> >the price to recover our cost let alone make any proffit on the job.
>
> I have seen some places advertise that they can get old keytop ivory
(legal because it comes from antiques), cut it to fit your keys and install
it, giving you a new "old" ivory keyboard.  Has anyone ever tried this or
seen it done?  Just how expensive would it really be?
>
> I'm seriously considering looking into it, because my oldie Steinway lost
its ivories long before I fell in love with it, and I'm thinking it might
like a new old set.  ;-)
>
> Best Regards,
> Greg
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