Removing ivory without damaging it?

[Calin Tantareanu]

Hi Brain,

Do you put the iron directly on the keytops or put a cloth under it, maybe
wet?
Or use a steam clothes-iron?

And yes I'm back home. It was a very interesting trip - seen a few piano
rebuilding facilities too. One interesting thing: I have asked them what
method of crowning they used - none used rib-crowning, and the reasons
ranged from "that's the way I learned it at the Steinway factory" to "it's
better with straight ribs"... It seemed to me that they didn't really bother
to check what the differences are between the two processes.


 Calin Tantareanu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lawson" <lawsonic@bdmail.co.za>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: Removing ivory without damaging it?


> Hi, back from the US?
>
> I use an iron (as in clothes) gently warm and prise off with care, with a
thin
> knife
>
> Brian
>