Scrape the worst off with a razor blade ( wearing ventless goggles, gloves and a carbon-filter mask with pre-filters ) then wipe the rest off with a scrub pad in alcohol, or a little soap and water and dry right away with paper towels. ( But watch out for some kinds of alcohol on some kinds of keytops --- will dissolve! ) But if you're doing a major rebuilding job, you can quickly dunk the keys in a toolbox filled with Super-Clean (TM ), scrub with Scotch-Brite (TM ) rinse, and dryon a rack ( out of the sun! ) and they'll get VERY clean, with no substantial problems! ( Get the bushings out while they're wet, too, and put in your Spurlock bushing-sizing cauls, but tack town the keybuttons with brads, first, to keep them from coming loose. ) Euphonious Thumpe > > > Even if > they > > aren't the one playing, they > > can see that it should be easier for little Johnny > or Mary > > to perform on clean > > keys. Most of the time, on my next visit, the keys > are > > clean. > > > > My question is this: do most high skilled pianists > prefer > > a smooth shiny > > keyboard, or one that has an ivory, sanded type > surface? > > Not sure if I've > > asked the question properly. When I've > steelwooled key > > tops to get them > > smooth , plastic or ivory, there is this feel > I'm > > trying to describe. If it's plastic > > for sure, I will buff to high gloss. I don't like the "plasticky" feel. I've buffed some keys with super-fine-steel wool and preferred it, but maybe the customer wouldn't. ( Take some sample keytops, treated different ways. ) Should they be > left > > somewhere a little > > before the gloss appears ?? Pretty hard to do, I > think. Buff with super-fine steel wool and then wax? Maybe that would create the "feel" you want. > > > > Carl / Winnipeg > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways > to > > connect. > > > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009
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