Ivories/work on a Hazelton grand

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 09:01 10/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Julie, my atlas shows that piano to have been made in early 1930.
>
>As for the ivories, no, it's probably better to have plastic keys than a 
>whole lot of bare wood if you don't have spare ivory heads to replace them 
>with. Unless you're very comfortable replacing key tops, you could always 
>send them out to be done by some of the people who specialise in 
>it.  There are ads in the Journal. You'll probably want to have the 
>bushings done at the same time.
>
>Hope that helps, I'm sure others will chime in hear too.
>
>Kevin.
>


Kevin,

I think you might have added a digit.

26446 would be 1900, 264460 would be 1930.

My trifocals do that to me, too. ;-{

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