Another wood identification please...

[NazNomad]

Pretty sure this isn't ivory. I wonder how many people left a cigarette burning on their organ :shock: and came back to a horse-drawn fire-engine at their house?

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[AndyT]

Wow! I guess that might come in useful, but not for any ordinary peaceful project!

 

[custard]

Just had an email from a guy that restores old pump organs in the USA...

''Most post Civil War pump organs do not have Ivory keys''.

Fair enough, I wish whoever made that ivory substitute was still in the game, it's far more convincing than anything you see nowadays apart from prohibitively expensive Elforyn!

I wonder what the substrate is that it's veneered to?

 

[MusicMan]

Custard, if you mean the piano keys, these were usually a straight-grained wood such as ash.

The synthetic ivory itself was supplied as a thin sheet. I think I have read something about its manufacture in a musical instruments reference book, I will try to find out more.

 

[NazNomad]

The 'ivory' part is only about 1/16'' thick on a wooden key.

If you want some to play with (no pun intended), I have a Imperial Sh$tload of them now. :-D