---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment er... let me guess.... yer a r'publican right ?? :) grin tune4u@earthlink.net wrote: > I have ivory on my very old piano. I LIKE IT. I have no shame for > having ivory on my very old piano, "justified" or otherwise. I didn't > kill the elephant. I didn't ask anyone to kill the elephant. The > elephant has been dead for almost a hundred years. The elephant was an > evil punk elephant with tattoos, ear studs, and green hair. It > murdered two male baby elephants it considered rivals. It wore an > animal hide coat! I'm sure you'll agree, it deserved to die. It felt > shame. It wanted to die. No more elephants will be killed for piano > keys. SO WHAT IS YOUR BEEF? That is to say, Monsieur LeThump, what IS > your problem??? BTW The natives who slaughtered the elephant reported > that it fed their entire village for two weeks and was delicious, > though by the end of the second week, much catsup was required. I just > squashed a brown recluse spider. "Oh, great," to quote the dinosaur in > Toy Story, "Now I have guilt." Many have asked you please to not use > this forum to promote your wacked-out, extreme, minority viewpoints > ... Especially when the topic is, a-hem, totally irrelephant! Alan > "Godless Flesh Eating Scum" BarnardSalem, MO ----- Original Message > -----From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>To: "Pianotech" > <pianotech@ptg.org>Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 3:41 PMSubject: > Re: Ivory Keys banned? > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pianotech list info: > > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/65/0f/a2/e4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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