Particularly acidic sweat ( dietarily related ) can also disolve wood in this fashion. Yet ANOTHER reason to go vegetarian and always wash your hands before playing! Thump --- "Paul Chick (Earthlink)" <tune4@earthlink.net> wrote: > A chapter member sent this photo to me. It's hard > to imagine playing this > piano. > > Paul C > > > Subject: Prize Winning Worn Out Piano Keys -!!! > > > These are keys from a piano that was recently > "traded-in" and > promptly hauled to the dump. It obviously took many > years > of playing to wear down the sharps and wear holes > this deeply > into the natural keys. It is very likely that the > person who > played this piano wore "porcelain" glue-on > fingernail covers > which are truly "hard-as-nails" and very abrasive to > ANY type > of keyboard covering. One-or-two glissandos across > the keys > with "porcelain" nail covers can hopelessly scratch > new keys. > If you look at the picture you can actually see > grooves in the > wood which are the same shape as the fingernails. > > D.P.K. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg name=Worn-out-keys-Medjpg.jpg > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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