Ivory Keys banned?

[gordon stelter]

Other factors? Perhaps a justified sense of shame. I
have always enjoyed playing on the smooth, cool, high
quality celluloid keytops that were used on Cable
products from the 20's onward, which do not as readily
produce extraneous, hard tapping sounds from
fingernail contact, etc..  To me, insistence on ivory
indicates an unjustifiable callousness and arrogance
regarding one's sense of self-importance versus
another's right to live!
     Gordon Stelter
     

--- "Christopher D. Purdy" <purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
wrote:
> >  >In 1989, the international trade in ivory from
> African elephants was banned
> >>by the Parties to the Convention on International
> Trade in Endangered
> >>Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the
> treaty that governs much of the
> >>international trade in plants and animals.
> International trade in Asian
> >elephant ivory had already been banned in 1975.
> 
> 
> I had always thought there was a ban as early as the
> late fifties or 
> so.  It just seemed like all the major manufactures
> stopped using it 
> about the same time.  Was it just getting too
> expensive to use or 
> were there other factors as well?
> 
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.
> School of Music, Ohio University
> Athens, Ohio  45701
> (740) 593-1656
> fax (740) 593-1429
> purdy@ohiou.edu
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