---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I have performed this 'ivory transplant' with good results. Measure the width of the keyboards so you won't be fitting a narrow set onto a wider set. Regards, Jon Page At 09:59 PM 11/24/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Greg, > One way to do this job is to cut the old ivory off the keytop > with a band >saw, and leave a thin veneer of wood under the ivory. If done correctly, >there will be no wood to be seen at the front of the key but as the ivory >tapers from front to back there is enough wood under the joint to keep it >all in one piece. Then simply glue the unit onto the old key that has been >dressed down correctly to take the new keytops. > >Chris Gregg > >At 11:17 AM 11/24/2000 -0800, you wrote: > >At 08:36 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Walter Gramza wrote: > >>... and ivory is outlawed and if available would be so costly to us as > >>the technician that we might have to take out a second mortgage on our > >>houses to pay for the ivory and the customer would never be willing to pay > >>the price to recover our cost let alone make any proffit on the job. > > > >I have seen some places advertise that they can get old keytop ivory >(legal because it comes from antiques), cut it to fit your keys and install >it, giving you a new "old" ivory keyboard. Has anyone ever tried this or >seen it done? Just how expensive would it really be? > > > >I'm seriously considering looking into it, because my oldie Steinway lost >its ivories long before I fell in love with it, and I'm thinking it might >like a new old set. ;-) > > > >Best Regards, > >Greg > >___________________________________________________________________ > >Greg Anderson greg@PlanetBeagle.com > > > > > > > http://www.cadvision.com/cgregg Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4a/c2/74/e3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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