Good way to go. You need to know that Steinway ivorys are a bit longer than most others. Dick RPT MT ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Anderson <greg@planetbeagle.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Keytop Mat'l, thickness + sspppppppelllllling > 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 >
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