new ivory info

[George]

What supply house sells the bone for key recovering?
George

At 08:25 PM 2/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>AND check out bone. It is so much like ivory. It is beautiful and the supply
>is endless (bovine forearm, as I understand).
>
>Terry Farrell
>Piano Tuning & Service
>Tampa, Florida
>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:31 PM
>Subject: Re: new ivory info
>
>
> > >I thought it was illegal to sell ivory, new OR used, so as not to
> > >encourage the killing of whales to feed the market. What's the story?
> > >
> > >Charles
> >
> > It's illegal to import ivory if it doesn't have the proper
> > documentation indicating its legal status (for example, I believe
> > some Indian ivory is legal because it's harvested from domesticated
> > elephants dying of natural causes). Ivory already already in the US
> > is under no particular regulation (that I know of).
> >
> > Patrick
> >