You may have wondered how to clean your piano
keys you may have noticed they get dirt dust you know things from dirty fingers sometimes
that play the piano and those things build-up on the piano keys which caused some caused them
to look dirty so piano keys need to be cleaned occasionally you may not notice it but if you look
closely there may be a lot of dust especially up here between the sharps, they don't get played
up there as often so more dust will settle up there so you'll find more dust and dirt and and
stuff built up on your keys so there's a couple things that you can do to clean your keys
one thing to keep in mind is you don't want to use anything that's abrasive that's going to
that's going to scratch the surface of the keys that could damage them some cleaners a lot of
cleaners have abrasives in them so we're going to show you a couple things that are used in and
work well for cleaning piano keys now one thing you can do is if they're just a little bit dusty
and not really there's not a lot of stuff built up on them, you can just take a damp soft cloth here
we've got this is something similar to our quarry cleaner cloth it's a microfiber cloth it's real
soft and it's made so that it won't scratch the surface of the keys so you get that if you get
that that a little bit damp now if you do have real ivories ivory keytops which show we show on
another one of our videos how to determine if you have real ivory keytops you don't want to get
them real wet because ivory is a porous surface so if they get if the ivories soak up water they
can actually warp the key top and release the glue underneath them so so you want to be aware of
that if whatever kind of cleaner you're using if you have real ivory keytops that you don't
get them real wet just slightly damp whatever cleaner it is that you're going to use just get it
slightly damp but if you're you know if you've got a if you're going to clean them sometimes if it's
just light dusting you can just wipe it off with a clean cloth but if you put to get it slightly
damp that that will pick up the dust better so so that's the first thing you can do it yeah
but most of the time you're going to have some kind of a buildup or something a little more
significant so ago I've got a couple cleaners the first thing we're going to show you here is
this product is a product that we sell in our online store called Cory ki bright this particular
product is made specifically for piano keytops you can use it for keyboard computer keyboards too
but mainly it's made for cleaning piano key tops so what we do with that is we just take
and we spray some of the cleaners you can spray it directly on the key tops but again you'll remember
the for they're real ivory you don't want to get them real wet what I like to do is just spray the
cloth and get that cleaner on the cloth and then you're going to rub and get all the way
up between the sharps and clean the key tops that way and then make sure you wipe off if there's
any residue or anything you can turn the cloth over and rub it with the dry side of the cloth so
that's another thing you can do now if you've got something that's built up on the keytops
that's you know even more stubborn you can use some you know again again you don't want to
use cleaners with abrasives but here we've got a soft scrub which you can usually get in most of
your local Walmart or home-improvement stores or something like that so this one is good because it
again doesn't have abrasives and what you want to do is you want to just put a little bit a little
dab of this cleaner on a soft cloth something like the cleaner cloth or whatever something
that's soft and you want to get the cloth damp first and then just put a drop of this on your
cloth and then rub that into the end of the key top so let's say we had you can use it and just
rub it the spot that's stubborn that the dirt and that will take it right off so those
are those are a couple things you can use the key brite we found works the best of the products
but again we've got that on our website at howardpianoindustries.com feel free to visit our
website if you have any questions we've got lots of products there for taking care of your piano
and we're glad to be of service and help to you