Crumbling music desk on Y.C.

[Carman Gentile]

   My client has a 1990's Knabe grand  (made by Young Chang)   On the music 
desk, the material on which the sheet music rests  is degrading and 
crumbling into coarse dust particles. It looks unsightly and the debris is 
falling into the tuning pin area. The material that is in there is not 
suede. If you push your thumbnail into it there is a mark left. As if it 
were some sort of plastic. Any idea on what they used to use?
   I finally reached the folks at Young Chang and although they will send 
some replacement suede, I still need to know how to extract that old material.

Carman Gentile RPT
Redwood Chapter