<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>keytop planer</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Ah! So you remove wood from the top of the key in order to stick on<br> horrible thick shaped acrylic key-tops and make it impossible for<br> anyone later to make a proper job of it by recovering the keys<br> professionally, if I now understand the drift of the thread.<br> If you're not set up to recover keys in sheet plastic, then why not</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">send them to a firm that specializes in doing the job properly at a</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">reasonable price without ruining the keys?</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Not all of us have the luxury, or clientele to pay for, of the painstaking</div> <div>restoration of vintage instruments. Most of the time it's to offer the</div> <div>customer a new playing surface for some crapola piano on which</div> <div>they don't want to dump a lot of cash into.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Most of these pianos won't outlive the new keytops anyway.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>