[CAUT] New Ivory ethical questions

[C. E. Hood]

As a fortepiano maker I use bone all the time and do not find it more slippery, nor do my customers - tho the key weight & technique (more violent!) of modern piano may cause this.  And the seam bet head & tail is easy, with a new fine file.  No harm in it being visible if it's tight & neat.  We are so used to plastic with its non-handmade look.
   In this country bone can be gotten from Nelson Woodworking,601 West Main Road, Little Compton, R.I., 401-635-4733.   Also (a much more recent source) Instrument Workshop, www.fortepiano.com. 
  I wish somebody from say Omaha would get interested in processing bone for sale - all the early instrument makers use it and it would be a good solution for modern pianos where plastic won't do.  The femur (big hind leg bone) of any cattle will do, and some is hard & clear, other bits are grainy & porous, what the Renaissence hpschd makers like, a salt-and-pepper look.  It must be boiled clean & sawn, both odorous & hazardous.
    Best, Margaret
   www.fortepianos.pair.com





-----Original Message-----

From: Don <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>

To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:01:00 +0000

Subject: RE: [CAUT] New Ivory ethical questions



Hi Jeannie,



There was someone in the back of the journal who was advertising bone tops.

I don't remember the name.



At 08:34 AM 11/12/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>Hi Don,

>What is your source for the bone?  Thanks,

>

>jeannie

>

>Jeannie Grassi



Regards,

Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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