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Repairing Ivory Keytops with No Front Lip

  • 1.  Repairing Ivory Keytops with No Front Lip

    Member
    Posted 3 hours ago

    Hi All,

    It's been a number of years since I've done an Acrilikey repair [sp?] on chipped ivories.  I've got a 1950's Steinway with a handful of chipped keys and 2 or 3 are chipped enough that the front lip of the key top is missing.  Has anyone ever found a way to repair this type of break?  I'd hate to have a whole keyboard recovered because of just a couple of these being broken in this way, but what are my other options?

    Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

    Best,

    Luke



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    Luke Taylor, Ph.D.
    Duarte, CA
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