<HTML><HTML>List I remember a thread about bleaching ivories a few months back and my time ca= me this week to try it.  Three ivories were missing on the piano and g= oing to my stock of old ivories I could find only 4 or 5 that were long enou= gh. Unfortunately, they were really yellow and didn't match their prospectiv= e neighbors in the least.  There was discussion on the thread about sunlight and peroxide and it seemed= to be a pretty complicated procedure.  Having nothing to lose but one= old ivory... I filled a cup with some laundry bleach and threw in one of the keys.  = Twenty minutes later it was a perfect white.  So, I threw in the othe= r two and they also turned white, but unfortunately I left them in too long = and they warped into a shallow U shape.  I put them side by side on th= e bench, laid my aluminum ruler on top of them, and put my bowling ball on t= op of that.  (I had to set a book next to the bowling ball to keep it = from rolling off the bench.) End result: three perfectly matching white ivories.  Whomsoever said t= hat laundry bleach wouldn't work: not true! Tom Sivak Chicago</HTML>