Many years ago, Martin Guitars bought an enormous band saw with a 6' throat to resaw large logs of Indian rosewood. Contemporaneously, the Indians decided that only cut lumber would leave the country. Who knew??? Chuck ________________________________ From: David Porritt <dmporritt at gmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, August 27, 2011 3:52:47 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Feds confiscating musical instrument materials This reminds me of many years ago when Turkey would not allow meerschaum to be exported for making pipes unless it was carved there. They wanted the jobs. I’d have to assume it would be the same in India – like us they need jobs! dave From:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ed Foote Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:04 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Feds confiscating musical instrument materials <<Recently the Gibson Guitar Company was raided by federal agents asserting that the company has been using illegally obtained banned lumber from protected forests. >> Greetings, According to our Nashville paper, the problem with the wood Gibson had was that India's laws require the wood to be finished before leaving the country, ie, whatever manufacturing is to be done with the wood has to be done in India. So, the Feds were confiscating material that India says should not have been exported in the condition it was in. I think this is an idiotic setting of priorities. There are far more important things we should be spending enforcement dollars on. Regards, Ed Foote RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110827/0185dae1/attachment-0001.htm>
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