>Hello, I believe the operative year is 1978....no ivory can be shipped into this country unless you can prove, via a document, that it was "harvested" well before that date. I have shipped ivory-key pianos in from Europe to the US with a license several times. There are also ivory suppliers that will sell and install ivory keytops....for a very high price. David Andersen >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 > >pianolover 88 wrote: > >> does anyone know about what year Ivory keys in the US were officially >> banned? Thanks >> >> Terry Peterson
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