broken key w/piece missing

[gordon stelter]

Or replace the missing portion with West's epoxy and
colloidal filler, and machine to fit. I replaced the
wippen "prongs" ( where the jack is pinned to) for an
1878 Knabe 7'8" grand with obsolete wippens this way.
Worked like a charm! Bushed the epoxy n' everthing! 
( Seems someone really pounded the last octave of the
keyboard! Perhaps U.S Grant, who was alleged to have
liked this piano in particular! )
     Thump

--- Tvak@aol.com wrote:
> Someone gave me a piano that has a broken key.  It's
> not possible to re-glue 
> it together because there is a part missing: it
> broke at the balance rail 
> hole, of course, and one of the sides of the hole is
> missing.  I don't think 
> I can manufacture the missing piece so that it fits
> onto the balance rail pin 
> effectively.
> 
> Is there a service somewhere that reproduces
> individual keys? 
> 
> Any ideas for repair would be appreciated.
> 
> Tom Sivak
> 
> P.S.
> 
> No, this isn't exactly a Steinway we're discussing
> here.  (It came with a 
> damp chaser bar down below the elbows.)  But someday
> I might come across a 
> Steinway with the same problem, and through the
> accumulated wisdom of the 
> list, I'd know how to deal with it!
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