(OT) SHAME ON US was Ivory Keys banned?

[Richard Brekne]

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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
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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html


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