Looking for replacement piano accordion key

[PJ]

Hi! A friend gave me an accordion (its true that once you have one, people give you others!) and I want to repair it. I've already fixed the basics on one, but this one has the key top missing. It's a Scandalli Salerno. The length of the missing top is 5 3/4 inches and the width is 3/4 dropping down to 5/8 between the black keys, about 1 3/4 from the outside edge (it's actually right between 1 3/4 and 1 7/8). The depth of the plastic top is 3/8. The end of the key wraps around and underneath the wood (a "waterfall" style?)
I'm not worried about an exact match. Does anyone have any suggestions where to find a replacement? I was told how to melt a plastic piano key to a mold but (a) where can I get a plastic piano key without wading through 6000 ebay ads? (b) is there anyone who knows of anywhere that has a heap of spare parts?
Any suggestions except use it to light a banjo fire?

[Ike Milligan]

Post by PJ
Hi! A friend gave me an accordion (its true that once you have one, people give you others!) and I want to repair it. I've already fixed the basics on one, but this one has the key top missing. It's a Scandalli Salerno. The length of the missing top is 5 3/4 inches and the width is 3/4 dropping down to 5/8 between the black keys, about 1 3/4 from the outside edge (it's actually right between 1 3/4 and 1 7/8). The depth of the plastic top is 3/8. The end of the key wraps around and underneath the wood (a "waterfall" style?)
I'm not worried about an exact match. Does anyone have any suggestions where to find a replacement? I was told how to melt a plastic piano key to a mold but (a) where can I get a plastic piano key without wading through 6000 ebay ads? (b) is there anyone who knows of anywhere that has a heap of spare parts?
Any suggestions except use it to light a banjo fire?

I have a Scandalli Salerno, but the keys are not "waterfall".
The best thing to do might be remove all the keys and find another
accordion with the right width of keys and replace all the key tops with
straight keys. But then the fronts might not be straight to accommodate
the tab that goes on the front under the key top.

Anyhow to remove the key tops, use steam. Piano keys won't work as
replacements, because they are too thick. Bending the celluloid nitrate
is not a good option. If you don't fix it up, the reeds are valuable,
since they were making really good reeds back then.