This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment 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" Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: 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 > =20 >=20 > --- "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. > >=20 > >=20 > > I had always thought there was a ban as early as the > > late fifties or=20 > > so. It just seemed like all the major manufactures > > stopped using it=20 > > about the same time. Was it just getting too > > expensive to use or=20 > > were there other factors as well? > >=20 > > Chris > >=20 > > --=20 > > Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T. > > School of Music, Ohio University > > Athens, Ohio 45701 > > (740) 593-1656 > > fax (740) 593-1429 > > purdy@ohiou.edu > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/27/e7/b0/31/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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