<DIV>Well, since I am just starting out, I do not have one single ivory keytop or head.  Do I just need to wait until my first keytop replacement where the clients keytops are ivory, and then salvage them?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Matthew<BR><BR><B><I>Jim Kinnear <jim@pianoguy.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2745.2800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hi Matthew . . </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Most of us, I would think, travel with a baggie of assorted ivories. Since they are all different colours, thicknesses, lengths and widths, I carry about a hundred, that I have scavenged from old keys I've recovered over the years . . .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Usually there is something that matches.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The plastic 'ivories' that are available,  are a poor substitute in my opinion.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I'd be interested in what others charge to replace an ivory ??</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Jim Kinnear<BR><A href="http://www.kinnearpiano.com/">www.kinnearpiano.com</A><BR>Collingwood, ON, Canada</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress<BR> -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher<BR>A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, <BR>but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort!<BR></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=toddpianoworks@yahoo.com href="mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com">Matthew Todd</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:23 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Missing Ivories</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>How do you all deal with a customer's piano that has three, four, five or ten missing ivory keytops (and others being chipped and cracked), and they don't want to replace them because they just like the fact that they are ivories?  Do you just leave them because they cost a lot more than the plastic tops?  Or what do you explain to the client?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Another question...what if a client has just one or two missing ivories, and everything else is in great shape.  Can we just get one or two ivory keytops to replace it with?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks!</DIV><BR><BR>Matthew Todd<BR>Todd Piano Works<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Tuning - Repairing - Regulating <P> <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>Yahoo! Search presents - <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/jibjabinaugural.html">Jib Jab's 'Second Term'</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Matthew Todd<br>Todd Piano Works<br>Piano Tuner/Technician<br>Tuning - Repairing - Regulating<p> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br> Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29915/*http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250">Do more. Manage less.</a>