Steingraeber factory pictures, bridge agraffes & adjustable vertical hitchpins

[Pierre Gevaert]

I think those mammoth tusks are found mainly in the north of Russia and that
it is easyer to find these now because of the increased temperature and the
melting of the polar ice.

 

Pierre Gevaert,

 

 

 

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De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part
de Calin Tantareanu
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Objet : RE: Steingraeber factory pictures,bridge agraffes & adjustable
vertical hitchpins

 

Read below: 

 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 

> [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond

> Sent: duminică, 30 aprilie 2006 21:39

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> Subject: Re: Steingraeber factory pictures,bridge agraffes & 

> adjustable vertical hitchpins

> 

> Thanks, Calin, for taking the time to put all that together.

 

You're welcome!

 

> What is mammoth ivory?  I don't know another definition of 

> mammoth, except huge.  On this side of the pond we generally 

> refer to mammoths as those 

> great--now extinct--beasts that lived during the ice age.   

 

That's correct. And they make keyboard coverings from the tusks of mammoths

which are found sometimes in places where they used to live.

Coming from an already extinct species, mammoth tusks are not subject to the

trade ban imposed to elephant ivory, so they can be traded legally.

It is, however, very expensive to get such a keyboard. Several thousand

euros I believe.

 

Calin Tantareanu

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