Matthew, If the sharps are in good condition, just clean and buff them and IME, they will match up just fine. William R. Monroe On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > Good evening, > > I will be sending a set of keys to Leon for top/front replacement this > week. I just wanted to ask your opinions. > > The piano is a 1948 Baldwin M. The whites are chipped, some are missing, > etc. The sharps actually look fairly good. Now, I was first just going to > request whites only. Leon uses the molded tops/fronts. Then I realized > that quite possibly when I got them back and matched them up with the sharps > (which are ebony), the sharps wouldn't look so good, and may look like I > should of had the sharps replaced as well. > > My final conclusion as of now, is to have the off-white German tops/fronts > and to have the ebony sharps refinished. The refinished definitely won't be > the high gloss the plastics give. > > Is there a particular white key/sharp combo that would look the best? Or > is this stupid? > > Thanks! > Matthew > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091130/22cba8be/attachment-0001.htm>
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