[pianotech] tape residue

[Gerald Groot]

Hi Barbara, 

I have done this many times over the years for the same reason.  File from TOP TO BOTTOM with the key slip removed.  If you file both directions, you have a chance that the key will be lifted up and then cracked or split on the upswing.  Ask me how I found that out???  

I use about a medium coarse bastard file about the thickness of the key itself filing only downward.  If you place something heavy on the back part of the front of the key, it'll hold several of them down at once allowing you to file in a continual motion.  It doesn't take long to remove the edges and make it flush or waterfall with key or however you want it to look.  

Jer 

-----Original Message----- 
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond 
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:54 PM 
To: pianotech 
Subject: [pianotech] tape residue 




Howdy, 

I was having a look through the archives about removing tape goo from keytops and someone made a reference to a type of key that might get damaged by a solvent. Would that be those old celluloid keys? 

Does anybody remember what type of keytop is on a Betsy Ross spinet? I'm pretty excited to get to service one of these, I've heard so much about them (or her). ;-} 

Another question about those celluloid keytops. I have a customer with a Baldwin Monarch small upright with many--maybe all--chipped keys. She doesn't want to spring for new keytops, so I was thinking of just filing and making waterfall keys out of them. Will the celluloid file OK? 

Thanks, 

Barbara Richmond, RPT 
near Peoria, Illinois 



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