Hi List: Thanks for the many good ideas concerning a customer of mine witha 1-year-old who used magic marker/highlighter on genuine ivories.( Steinway B) I tried several products-from your suggestions and what was available from stores- first on some samples at home. I used both magic marker and yellow highlight pens. Products used were: "Goof Off" made by Lilly Industries; Acetone; and the developer bottle supplied with Clairol Nice n Easy home hair coloring kit. I applied markers to (1) wide-grained ivory (2) fine grained ivory (3) plastic key top. The Goof Off took any marks off of the plastic but would not make much headway on genuine ivory-especially on wide-grained. The winner was: Nice n Easy developer which appears to be a very creamy chemical concoction but seems to resemble Hydrogen Peroxide. When I took this to the customers home, it took about 5 minutes to get the highlighter pen marks out of the 18 keytops using the developer and very fine steel wool -just as I had done on the samples I had worked on at home. She was delighted- as was I at getting such wonderful results. The lady had just returned from a trip to Italy and gave me a 1000 Lira note as a tip. I can now get that Cadillac I always wanted. Again:Thanks to all of you for responses to this problem. Bob Bergantino, RPT Willoughby Hills, Ohio
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