bleaching ivories: E-Z

[Isaac OLEG]

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Yes it works , but only for the ones who have a bowling ball <g>

Isaac OLEG
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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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