key tops

[RustRazor@AOL.COM]

Hi Karen:

If you are a guild member, why don't you ask around at your next meeting.  
Piano techs, like myself who have done a number of key recoverings usually 
have amassed a collection of old ivory keytops for use in situations just the 
one you are in.  Ask if you can borrow a bucket of old ivories and just match 
them the best you can to the piano.  Sometimes you may have to file the edges 
of the ivory a little to fit the key.  I definately recommend removing the 
old glue from the key and ivory before gluing the replacement one on.  I 
don't know if keytop dimensions are on-file for 100 year old pianos and I 
suggest that trying to find the "correct" ivories that way won't get you very 
far.

Good Luck, Matt