<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have ivory on my very old piano. I LIKE = IT.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have no shame for having ivory on my very old = piano, "justified" or otherwise.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I didn't kill the elephant.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I didn't ask anyone to kill the = elephant.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>The elephant has been dead for almost a hundred years.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>No more elephants will be killed for piano keys. = SO WHAT IS YOUR BEEF? That is to say, Monsieur LeThump, <EM><STRONG>what IS = your problem???</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I just squashed a brown recluse spider. "Oh, = great," to quote the dinosaur in <EM>Toy Story,</EM> "Now I have = guilt."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Many have asked you please to not use this forum = to promote your wacked-out, extreme, minority viewpoints ...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Especially when the topic is, a-hem,<EM><STRONG> = totally irrelephant!</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan "Godless Flesh Eating Scum" = Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Salem, MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "gordon stelter" <</FONT><A href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com"><FONT face=Arial>lclgcnp@yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT = face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: "Pianotech" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face=Arial>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT = face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 3:41 = PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: Ivory Keys = banned?</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>> Other = factors? Perhaps a justified sense of shame. I<BR>> have always enjoyed = playing on the smooth, cool, high<BR>> quality celluloid keytops that were used on Cable<BR>> products from the 20's onward, which do not as = readily<BR>> produce extraneous, hard tapping sounds from<BR>> fingernail contact, = etc..  To me, insistence on ivory<BR>> indicates an = unjustifiable callousness and arrogance<BR>> regarding one's sense of = self-importance versus<BR>> another's right to live!<BR>>      = Gordon Stelter<BR>>      <BR>> <BR>> --- = "Christopher D. Purdy" <</FONT><A href="mailto:purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu"><FONT face=Arial>purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu</FONT></A><FONT = face=Arial>><BR>> wrote:<BR>> > >  >In 1989, the international trade in = ivory from<BR>> > African elephants was banned<BR>> > >>by = the Parties to the Convention on International<BR>> > Trade in Endangered<BR>> > >>Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), = the<BR>> > treaty that governs much of the<BR>> > >>international trade in plants and animals.<BR>> > = International trade in Asian<BR>> > >elephant ivory had already been banned = in 1975.<BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > I had always thought = there was a ban as early as the<BR>> > late fifties or <BR>> > so.  = It just seemed like all the major manufactures<BR>> > stopped using it = <BR>> > about the same time.  Was it just getting too<BR>> > = expensive to use or <BR>> > were there other factors as well?<BR>> > = <BR>> > Chris<BR>> > <BR>> > -- <BR>> > Christopher D. = Purdy R.P.T.<BR>> > School of Music, Ohio University<BR>> > = Athens, Ohio  45701<BR>> > (740) 593-1656<BR>> > fax (740) 593-1429<BR>> > </FONT><A href="mailto:purdy@ohiou.edu"><FONT face=Arial>purdy@ohiou.edu</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > pianotech = list info:<BR>> </FONT><A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"><FONT face=Arial>https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</FONT></A><BR>= <FONT face=Arial>> <BR>> <BR>> __________________________________________________<BR>> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>> Yahoo! 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