Ivory keytops and tails

[David Ilvedson]

David Walther...google...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: a.acker at comcast.net <Anne Acker>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 11/12/2007 10:33:42 AM
Subject: Ivory keytops and tails


>I need to replace about a dozen nasty iodine stained plastic keytops with ivory on an 
>otherwise lovely ivory keyboard and have discovered these keytops are a full 2 in. 
>long vs. the usual 1 7/8 and the keytails are a tad wider than the normal as well.   
>The piano in question is an 1899 Collard & Collard.

>Would anybody out there have anything handy?

>Otherwise,  I have quite forgotten the name of the fellow in the midwest who has 
>the old ivory and can make keytops.   I would greatly appreciate his name and 
>contact information.

>Thank you!

>Anne Acker

>p.s.  and no, we're not going to replace all the ivory with plastic.   Owner has a 
>house full of antiques.   They'd stick out like sore thumbs.