Keytop material?

[Isaac sur Noos]

Calin,

it never look nice, may be only the material used by Kluge on their
keys (on demand) http://www.kluge-klaviaturen.de/, ask them a price
list and catalog - but you should be able to cut it and shape it, it
is not easily done without a routing table and some other equipment.

I'll ask a friend who is doing ivory covering often, and do as much a
80 keyboards/year (bushings, new wood on the sides, on the bottom, ...

P.S. they can provide you the best bushing cloth 1.2mm (1.3mm in fact)
on earth ! no way to find it elsewhere.
Ask them for balance and key pins too if you buy some thing there.
They can recover a keyboard for you if you wish.
Bone is not as good looking as we thought, it is a little grayish and
because it is an open pore material it is soon dirty. The Mammoth
ivory is not that good for piano keys.

Do you own a router ? if you are obliged to use plastic key tops you
should thin the keys a tad, or the sharps will be too deep in between
(the fronts also could be too thick)

Greetings

Isaac OLEG





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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Calin Tantareanu
> Envoyé : mardi 22 juillet 2003 19:17
> À : pianotech@ptg.org
> Objet : Re: Keytop material?
>
>
> Thanks everyone, but I am really looking for and affordable
> and easy to get
> material. So what I want to know is which ones of the
> available plastic or
> whatever keytops is going to look best. What do you people
> use? What would
> you recommend?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>  Calin Tantareanu
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>  http://calintantareanu.tripod.com
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Jackson" <ScottWayneJackson@hotmail.com>
> To: "Calin Tantareanu" <dnu@fx.ro>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Keytop material?
>
>
> > Calin,
> > There has been much previous discussion about using bone
> (from cows) as a
> keytop covering material. This is an alternative to plastic
> much closer to
> ivory. Try searching the archives for the word 'bone'.
> > https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech
> >
> > Scott Jackson
> > Australia
>
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