---------- > From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Plastic Keytops > Date: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 11:12 AM > > > Folks, > > Carefully putting on my asbestos suit, I must (strongly) disagree with the > practice of highly polishing keytops and/or sharps. > Horace, Are you saying you _sweat_ when you play? That you don't appreciate the puddles of sweat that those glistening white plastics make during performance? That ivory would "absorb", as Leonard put it? Is that cool cold touch lost? The however slightly buffed plastic when fingernails touch is translated to a grating edge in mind to teeth tingling distraction? And washing your hands makes it worse? Well maybe the soap was wrong. Ah talcum. I don't perform but when the performer asks, what can I say? Bring back ivory. Bring back the Elephants. Its like clipping toe nails, is'n it? Richard Trimming the Excess (As If)
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