bleaching ivories: E-Z

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I remember a thread about bleaching ivories a few months back and my time 
came this week to try it.   Three ivories were missing on the piano and going to 
my stock of old ivories I could find only 4 or 5 that were long enough. 
Unfortunately, they were really yellow and didn't match their prospective neighbors 
in the least.   

There was discussion on the thread about sunlight and peroxide and it seemed 
to be a pretty complicated procedure.   Having nothing to lose but one old 
ivory...

I filled a cup with some laundry bleach and threw in one of the keys.   
Twenty minutes later it was a perfect white.   So, I threw in the other two and 
they also turned white, but unfortunately I left them in too long and they warped 
into a shallow U shape.   I put them side by side on the bench, laid my 
aluminum ruler on top of them, and put my bowling ball on top of that.   (I had to 
set a book next to the bowling ball to keep it from rolling off the bench.)

End result: three perfectly matching white ivories.   Whomsoever said that 
laundry bleach wouldn't work: not true!

Tom Sivak
Chicago

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