This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment How can I see the difference between plastic and celluloid? Are ivory, plastic, and celluloid the only types of keys? What is celluloid made out of? Matthew Jon Page wrote: > At 06:58 PM 03/10/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >To add a little to Keith and Willem's response, there is one sure way to > >tell ivory from plastic or celluloid. However, be cautioned that this > >is a destructive test...... Hold a small sliver of the material in a > >flame. Ivory will smell like burning hair; plastic like burning > >plastic; and celluloid will smell like burning fingers...(if you don't > >turn loose real quick!). Seriously, the celluloid burns very > >rapidly....don't use a large piece (and don't ask). If you are not > >adventurous, use a tweezer to hold the sliver.. > > > >Tom Robinson > >East Tennessee - making pianos sound better......one spinet at a > >time.... > > > > Very true, you know for sure when it is celluloid because it is difficult to > put out :-). > > Jon Page, piano technician > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. > mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mtodd.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 157 bytes Desc: Card for Matthew Todd Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d5/79/df/6a/mtodd.vcf ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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