<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> er... let me guess.... yer a r'publican right ?? :) grin tune4u@earthlink.net wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> 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" <<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>>To: "Pianotech" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>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" <<a href="mailto:purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu">purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu</a>> > 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 > > <a href="mailto:purdy@ohiou.edu">purdy@ohiou.edu</a> > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: > <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > <a href="http://mailplus.yahoo.com">http://mailplus.yahoo.com</a> > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a></blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>