First of all welcome to the list |Paul. In article <328ED23C.C3@pcms.com>, Dean Thomas <deanthom@pcms.com> writes > >Cleaning dirty ivories is not the issue. Closing the pores is the issue. >Cleaning off surface grime is only good for a few days of use. If you >polish the surface once it is clean, then the ivories will stay clean >much longer, needing only to be wiped with terrycloth. Very well put Dean > >A missionary friend shared that in Africa, when the natives want their >ivory sculpture to gleam, they use Brasso. If you polish them with a >wheel, you'd use an appropriate abrasive, probably about the same grit as >Brasso. I've used brasso in the past myself, but I have never seen it in the shops for years. > >In a pinch, you can even use white tooth paste or tooth polish (NOT GEL!! >as you need the abrasives found in the paste or polish). It has worked >for me. The tooth paste can also double for filling nail holes in Some how I can't see myself , sat in a customers house with a tube of toothpast in one hand a tooth brush in the other a key firmly wedged in between my legs and a customer peering over my shoulder. :-) I would always persuade the customer to let me take the keys back to my workshop to buff them up. Kind regards, Barrie. -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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