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272517 Nick Jonkman <njonkman@x...> 2021‑01‑10 Re: Scrapping a piano tomorrow
Hi guys

I haven't been very active lately so thought I needed to chime in. Quite 
a few years ago I designed and built a special sander for a lady in 
California. She was replacing the plastic on piano keys with salvaged 
ivory from old pianos. She actually used new keys and glued the old 
ivory to these. Since the ivory pieces were not all the same thickness 
she needed a machine that would surface sand them flat. I built a drum 
sander for her with 3 or 4 different grits of paper on it with dedicated 
slot/track for each grit where she could slide the key into to cross the 
drum. She sent me some new keys and one with salvage ivory on it so I 
could build the machine to fit. I presume she was happy as I never heard 
from her again. So yes old ivory can be reused.

Nick

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