<HTML>In a message dated 1/10/2003 5:57:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, forever.tteot@verizon.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: Re: Ivory Keys banned? Date: 1/10/2003 5:57:04 AM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:forever.tteot@verizon.net">forever.tteot@verizon.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet Pre -Ban Ivory keysets (they come with keys attached) are available from Roseland piano but it's a pricey proposition</BLOCKQUOTE>              Dale <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hello, I was talking to a Steinway authorized tech/dealer and was asking him about ivory keys because when they rebuilt my action, they replaced the ivory with some new material and he said that Steinway officially stopped using ivory in either 1972 or 1982 (I think it was 1982)...BUT I know that there are still legal ways to get ivory in the US...I just don't know how one goes about doing that.  I would have thought that , of all companies, Steinway would have continued to use ivory (legally) on their grands. Hope this helps...at least maybe a little. Steven </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>