---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 12/11/2004 10:25:34 A.M. Central Standard Time, Erwinspiano@aol.com writes: Speaking of ethical questions If you think the price was high for the Poor Elephants. I've heard the death toll to the indigenous tribes who were kidnapped to haul it out to the coast was about 6 people per LB or several people per keyboard or some such. Very gruesome. It was a barbarous business. There is a book out that document this & the name of it escapes me right now but I was shocked. Makes one think! There was an article in the Journal about this back in the late 80's, and someone gave a class on ivories at the convention in 1987 in St. Louis. You're right, it was a gruesome event. One curious thing I remember. The action maker Pratt Reed started out as in the ivory business back in the 1700 and 1800's, making combs, and such. They got their ivory after the slaves were dropped off in the south. But what was ironic is that either Mr. Pratt or Mr. Reed was an abolitionist. Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano Technician School of Music University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/3c/75/df/20/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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