I am a piano technician for 40 years. Tip: no matter how old, if an ivory is scraped with a sharp blade, the scrapings will smell of bone. And old, pre-WWll plastics are apt to smell of camphor, the plasticizer of cellulose nitrate plastic. Cellulose nitrate was the first true plastic and its earliest uses in the late nineteenth century included imitation ivory. By the way, yellowed ivories can be returned to new ivory appearance by bleaching with 40 vol. hydrogen peroxide mixed with basic white bleaching powder. Remove keys to a work table. Brush on generous coat of bleaching mixture. Cover with plastic wrap overnight. Uncover. Wipe off residue. Marginally loosened ivories may further loosen from the water content of the bleach mixture. When the ivories are bone-dry, check for deteriorated glue. Reglue loose ivories. Cyanoacrylate glues are good for this. Scrape off any excess glue. Fine sand any defects if required with 600 grit paper or finer. Polish ivories by hand (suggested) or better yet, finish with 4/0 steel wool for a satin luster, lubricating the 4/0 pad with old-fashioned paste wax. Play on your ivory keys only with freshly washed hands, to prevent yellowing from skin oils that will sink into the alway-porous ivory and inevitably discolor over time.
@@bcmiller2000 the reason why they used ivory in the first place is because back then until now it is believed that ivory absorvs the swet from your hands so they don't slip wile playing🎹🎶
I went to conservatory for a year and was very lucky to have played on pianos from the late 19th century. It was one of the oldest and first music conservatories in my country and I was told that the latest vintage piano they had (at the time, anyway) was from the 1920s. Now, I was never really able to tell the difference in play and feel between ivory and plastic keys since I've played on modern ones all my life, and for that year I spent in school, I took guitar as my major; and the pianos were indeed very well maintained and preserved, and only select recitalists got to play them. But the sound, however, was something else entirely, especially with the perfect acoustics of the room they were housed in, elevated by the smell of old wood. To me, it was more about touching a piece of history-one of my professors taught me that "music is infinite," and it was kind of like that-like touching infinity.
I've seen ivory keys that had developed cracks that are shape enough to cut your fingers, it was on a beautiful Steinway. The owner was able to have them replaced for brand new keytops for free by trading the old ivory pieces. He's a pro player with many hit writing credits so I imagine the difference between ivory and new plastics is very small.
@@BFHPET because you wrote your reply 8 years after he posted it, and I'm replying to you at least one year later. We may as well be on different planets, talk to you in a few years mate! :)
+SongsAndMixes I have an 1880 Grand Piano that was given to me for free. You want it? I am going to throw it over the bank. No one wants them, that's why they are dirt cheap or even free
Beverley Langkilde you must be joking right? They have stopped killing. Dead elephants ( dead of natural cause) are now the source.... That's why ivory keys ar so costly.
I've just bought an 1878 piano, waiting for it to be delivered on Monday, but it has many of the features on the keys you described, they would not have used plastic back then so am I safe in assuming ivory?
They used nitrocellulose, and plastic was invented well before 1878; In 1862 the first man-made plastic, nitrocellulose (branded Parkesine), was created by Alexander Parkes from cellulose treated with nitric acid and a solvent. In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes' invention by plasticizing the nitrocellulose with camphor. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a $10,000 prize to whomever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented called camphored nitrocellulose-the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid. Chances of the keys being ivory then are slim, since by 1869 elephants were already poached to near extinction, and this new cheap mass produced plastic was invented in 1862 and 1869. By the 1930s things appeared to change as Popular Science ran an article in 1937 about piano ivory keys coming from the hundreds of elephants killed each year. So the better quality pianos- Steinway etc from the 1930s are more likely to have ivory keys than the pianos in the 1870s
@@HobbyOrganist It was mostly an issue with billard balls, they didn't have enough materials to make them: which is why bakelite, celluloide and plastic have been invented Most pianos do have ivory if they were made before 1950, even in the 1870
I have a 1928 Sohmer grand with ivory keys. The texture really is much better for playing, but I wouldn't want to kill elephants for this reason. Or any reason. My sister has a 19th century upright that she wants to dispose of. It has ivory keys. It seems a shame to toss them. But is it legal to remove the keys and sell them? Maybe they can be used on another piano.
I guess this is strictly for playability, but they have some incredible fake ivory now made of plastic, so shouldn't be a problem with anyone to not use ivory. Not like a guitar bridge saddle where it affects the sound, but they have something called "TUSQ" now for guitars, and I always preferred bone for the best tone. They get them from a number of sources where the animal was raised for food or something, or even old dog bones I've read people using. And like pianos, you can NOT ship a guitar with ivory parts, even if it is old. You have to get all kinds of paperwork done, and some countries still take the guitar and won't give it back. Some musicians won't travel with their best vintage acoustics for that reason. Even some types of wood will get the guitar confiscated!!! Sad when it is original from the 1920s when it was legal to use those woods and other materials.
heat up a needle red hot with a torch, and try and insert it into the side of a key. if it goes into the material or leaves a burn mark, its not real ivory.
Why would you ever use mammoth ivory for piano keys? Like those are extinct, it would be such a stupid waste to use their corpses for anything other than science
I don't agree with killing pets for Ivories. No wonder Ivory is illegal to produce these days. It cost a lot of innocent pets, and I hate to see them getting killed just for their tusks to be used to make Piano keys. I don't agree though with Ivory pianos produced from the early 1900s to be illegal to be shipped, I mean they are already produced so I don't see any logic behind banning those.
Nihal Jude If they don't make it illegal, hunters will simply buy a few old and as cheap as possible piano's, take of the 'legal' old ivory and replace it with new. It would become their way of transporting illegal ivory.
They make key tops out of cow bone now, at least for pipe organ manuals when the bone option is ordered. As far as telling what the keyslips are on a piano, if one is loose or came loose, if it's sanded a little on the underside and it's the old nitrocellulose key slips, it will give off a camphor-like odor.
Awesome! I've always asked myself about this. I think ivory comes from the teeth and horns of more animals than just Elephants (i.e. Rhinos, whales, hippos).
I have played on pianos with both ivory and plastic keys, and as much as i disagree with the killing of elephants for making pianos, ivory keys are nicer to play on. Your fingers glide more easily over them and aren't as susceptible to sweat.
I saw you all down there saying Ivory is Elephant tusk. That mean Yamaha could have been sued as well because Yamaha have been using ivory, and even worse for Clavinova thing.
No they don't they use plastic, and wood for their Clavinova keys. Older Yamaha acoustic pianos may have ivory for the white key tops, and frunts, however it didn't continue until the late 1900s. Most new Yamaha acoustic pianos use ivorite which is simulated ivory, and the ones that don't use ivorite use plastic🎹🎶
I'm vegan and I recently bought a piano (from a third party) to only now learn that some piano keys are made with ivory. So thank you for this video so that I can begin to figure out if mine are ivory. Although I suppose it doesn't really matter now that I've already bought the darn thing but it will give me some piece of mind if I find out that they are plastic.
I'm vegan as well and actually also just bought an old piano. As much as I love elephants, and animals in general and I feel really sad what we're doing to them and the things we have done (killing beautiful nog wild animals for some white plated keys... really?), I don't really bother. The damage is done, 115 years ago in my case. What would be even sadder is to throw them away.
It's not necessarily about "wanting" an ivory key piano. I have a piano that was purchased in 1965 and was 20 years old at the time. Does it have ivory keys? I would like to know.
We need to boycott ivory and understand that the use of ivory encourages poachers, and you don't even want to know what they do to elephants and other tusk growing creatures to get that ivory. Furthermore, this poaching for ivory is why elephants are becoming an endangered species - I have heard a number of 96 elephants being killed a day in Africa. Please do not encourage the use of ivory.
+Susan Taunton i agree on the boycott for ivory because many elephants are going endangered due to their tusks which people use to make trinkets, piano keys and other things.
Tusks are not like finger nails or hair. Despite being made of the same bodily materials as those they contain many many blood vessels through them. Cutting off tusks is akin to cutting off a limb, both in terms of pain and likelihood of survival.
I cry for the thousands of elephants and rhinos whose faces were cut off and left for dead. The images make me sick to my stomach. Those people who poach now or in the past are insane psychopathic people. We should be the ones who either take care of the animals of our world or leave them alone, because we have power over them in many ways and should use our power for good.
I think if we can farm elephants(like we do cows, chicken, ect) for ivory, and harvested the tusks in a humane/painless way, I think it would be fine if there was some ivory business. If there was a legal trade of ivory, it would be harder for a poacher to make a living.
Thank you for the information! Don't worry about all these tree huggers bitching about your video having anything to do with ivory, most of them don't know the law and they believe that all ivory is illegal when that isn't the case. Also, ivory is a beautiful natural material and I don't think there is anything morally wrong with harvesting ivory from nonendangered animals. The problem exists when animals are pushed to extinction through relentless ivory poaching.
Matthew Mead dude, its apart of the animals body for a reason, we cant just take it away, itll do harm to them, open your mind, and stop being so selfish man
I saw you all down there saying Ivory is Elephant tusk. That mean Yamaha could have been sued as well because Yamaha have been using ivory, and even worse for Clavinova thing. Like seriously, what's the big deal for ivory?!?!?!?!?! I'd rather my keyboards be vegan because of this.
Joel Robert Justiawan, you didn't do your homework. Any white keys on a musical keyboard are called ivories regardless of what they are made of. It's like calling any kind of facial tissue a Kleenex. It's not. The Clavinova has SYNTHETIC keys. They are not real ivory, but have been specially created to imitate the feel of the real thing.
Please everyone watch earthlings and gary yourofsky on youtube please and please go vegan it's better for us it's better for the animals and it's better for the planet that we live on and be careful sugar is not vegan because of the bone char just search online for vegan sugar brands or just call the company or e mail them and ask them if they use bone char and be careful with the products that contain sugar just read the ingredients btw beet sugar and evaporated cane juice are vegan
I tried to watch Earthlings, but it was too painful - I caved after I saw what happened to the dog at the end of maybe chapter 2 or 3 - that image still haunts me, years later. I become a vegan in 2012, right around that time. It seems that beginning to allow oneself to grasp the suffering that we are causing animals around this planet, either by poaching, circuses, factory farming and beyond, one becomes more and more keenly aware, and everyone around you gobbling dairy and meat and, just for example, boasting cruel thoughts about elephants, seem like sad and dangerous sleepwalkers.
I’ve never understood the scandal of the ivory trade There are *scientists* who admit that because of bad studies on elephant populations, they encouraged African governments to thin elephant herds to “protect the environment” It’s not dirt poor African poachers killing all the elephants, its African governments killing them because scientists told them to Without jackass “environmentalists” there would be no elephant population problem, *and* we could still enjoy the luxury of ivory
Oop my neighbors keys are ivory… this is awk… I’ve been playing on them all my life…. Ok I understand why some countries had to use their resources for certain things, but why do they still make ivory keys then?? We have plenty or resources.
I am a piano technician for 40 years. Tip: no matter how old, if an ivory is scraped with a sharp blade, the scrapings will smell of bone. And old, pre-WWll plastics are apt to smell of camphor, the plasticizer of cellulose nitrate plastic. Cellulose nitrate was the first true plastic and its earliest uses in the late nineteenth century included imitation ivory. By the way, yellowed ivories can be returned to new ivory appearance by bleaching with 40 vol. hydrogen peroxide mixed with basic white bleaching powder. Remove keys to a work table. Brush on generous coat of bleaching mixture. Cover with plastic wrap overnight. Uncover. Wipe off residue. Marginally loosened ivories may further loosen from the water content of the bleach mixture. When the ivories are bone-dry, check for deteriorated glue. Reglue loose ivories. Cyanoacrylate glues are good for this. Scrape off any excess glue. Fine sand any defects if required with 600 grit paper or finer.
Polish ivories by hand (suggested) or better yet, finish with 4/0 steel wool for a satin luster, lubricating the 4/0 pad with old-fashioned paste wax. Play on your ivory keys only with freshly washed hands, to prevent yellowing from skin oils that will sink into the alway-porous ivory and inevitably discolor over time.
Thanks for the info, sounds to me like plastic works the best. I wonder why they don't use stone, white marble seems a good option.
Can I clean ivory keys with lemon pledge
@@bcmiller2000 the reason why they used ivory in the first place is because back then until now it is believed that ivory absorvs the swet from your hands so they don't slip wile playing🎹🎶
How yellow can they get is that a sign of age?
I went to conservatory for a year and was very lucky to have played on pianos from the late 19th century. It was one of the oldest and first music conservatories in my country and I was told that the latest vintage piano they had (at the time, anyway) was from the 1920s. Now, I was never really able to tell the difference in play and feel between ivory and plastic keys since I've played on modern ones all my life, and for that year I spent in school, I took guitar as my major; and the pianos were indeed very well maintained and preserved, and only select recitalists got to play them. But the sound, however, was something else entirely, especially with the perfect acoustics of the room they were housed in, elevated by the smell of old wood. To me, it was more about touching a piece of history-one of my professors taught me that "music is infinite," and it was kind of like that-like touching infinity.
I've seen ivory keys that had developed cracks that are shape enough to cut your fingers, it was on a beautiful Steinway. The owner was able to have them replaced for brand new keytops for free by trading the old ivory pieces. He's a pro player with many hit writing credits so I imagine the difference between ivory and new plastics is very small.
who is it
@@BFHPET ur probably never gonna know lol
@@toshiracek2440 why?
@@BFHPET because you wrote your reply 8 years after he posted it, and I'm replying to you at least one year later. We may as well be on different planets, talk to you in a few years mate! :)
@@CrashTestSkater no shit sherlock maybe go pratice the piano instead waiste your shitty life on here kid. Good luck.
Great info. Ive salvaged an ivory key to fashion a guitar pick and it is the ultamate pick. The sound is to die for. Thanx for your useful tips.
Mine i know are plastic because my piano only costed 150 dollars :P
You wish
Toys R' Us?
Kevin15047 You can get a good used one bro
I know. Mine was $400. I bought it from a piano technician.
+SongsAndMixes I have an 1880 Grand Piano that was given to me for free. You want it? I am going to throw it over the bank. No one wants them, that's why they are dirt cheap or even free
Do ivory keys have that grippy/sticky feel to them when playing?
Which keys have that?
Just... Amazing. Thank you for the information Sir!
Most welcome!
I grew up playing on ivory keys a family heirloom piano
If you feel them with your fingers you will know
They feel fantastic for playing indescribable
My favorite piano teacher. I think my music teacher in HS used this channel at times also
I wonder how many spotted owl talons it would take to replace the discolored ivory on my piano keys
Way to go Paul . LMFBO
Think with compassion - Stop killing our African elephants for the sake of piano keys!
ha
Hard to understand.. Poor thing!
+Beverley Langkilde what are you talking about?
They haven't killed elephants for piano keys for almost a century now...
Beverley Langkilde you must be joking right? They have stopped killing. Dead elephants ( dead of natural cause) are now the source.... That's why ivory keys ar so costly.
Also, plastic keys are not ticklish.
I can feel the difference on most... Some synthetic Ivory makes it harder to tell (Casio is particularly tough), but others it isn’t even close.
I've just bought an 1878 piano, waiting for it to be delivered on Monday, but it has many of the features on the keys you described, they would not have used plastic back then so am I safe in assuming ivory?
+RetroGamerVX plastic hadn't been invented yet so good chance of it
They used nitrocellulose, and plastic was invented well before 1878;
In 1862 the first man-made plastic, nitrocellulose (branded Parkesine), was created by Alexander Parkes from cellulose treated with nitric acid and a solvent. In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes' invention by plasticizing the nitrocellulose with camphor.
In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a $10,000 prize to whomever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented called camphored nitrocellulose-the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid.
Chances of the keys being ivory then are slim, since by 1869 elephants were already poached to near extinction, and this new cheap mass produced plastic was invented in 1862 and 1869.
By the 1930s things appeared to change as Popular Science ran an article in 1937 about piano ivory keys coming from the hundreds of elephants killed each year. So the better quality pianos- Steinway etc from the 1930s are more likely to have ivory keys than the pianos in the 1870s
They stopped using Ivory on piano keys in the 1950s
@@HobbyOrganist It was mostly an issue with billard balls, they didn't have enough materials to make them: which is why bakelite, celluloide and plastic have been invented
Most pianos do have ivory if they were made before 1950, even in the 1870
I have a 1928 Sohmer grand with ivory keys. The texture really is much better for playing, but I wouldn't want to kill elephants for this reason. Or any reason. My sister has a 19th century upright that she wants to dispose of. It has ivory keys. It seems a shame to toss them. But is it legal to remove the keys and sell them? Maybe they can be used on another piano.
It should be fine, it's normally fine to sell ivory as long as it's old ivory that was gotten before it became illegal.
We kill cows for leather, why are elephants more important?
@@potatoproductions4393 cows aren't endangered
@@potatoproductions4393 no we don't. We kill them for the meat and then we use the leather as well.
I guess this is strictly for playability, but they have some incredible fake ivory now made of plastic, so shouldn't be a problem with anyone to not use ivory. Not like a guitar bridge saddle where it affects the sound, but they have something called "TUSQ" now for guitars, and I always preferred bone for the best tone. They get them from a number of sources where the animal was raised for food or something, or even old dog bones I've read people using. And like pianos, you can NOT ship a guitar with ivory parts, even if it is old. You have to get all kinds of paperwork done, and some countries still take the guitar and won't give it back. Some musicians won't travel with their best vintage acoustics for that reason. Even some types of wood will get the guitar confiscated!!! Sad when it is original from the 1920s when it was legal to use those woods and other materials.
I was worried an elephants' blood was on my hands for using my beloved instrument, thank you for settling my fears.
Well an elephants blood wouldn’t be on your hands even if you have ivory, it would be on the hands of the elephant killer
@@samueljohnston9639 think harder
You are definitely a fruit cake .
heat up a needle red hot with a torch, and try and insert it into the side of a key. if it goes into the material or leaves a burn mark, its not real ivory.
Thanks, I'll go burn my piano now to see if it's real ivory or not.
How well would walrus tusk ivory, narwhale ivory, or even mammoth ivory work for piano keys?
Why would you ever use mammoth ivory for piano keys? Like those are extinct, it would be such a stupid waste to use their corpses for anything other than science
Good video! Thank you!
Does a knabe grande. Usually have ivory if so. Can I use pledge to clean them?
All pianos used to have ivory keys before plastic was invented. This may help you: ua-cam.com/video/Mx7X79ZBrSE/v-deo.html
No wonder elephants hate piano music
Not true my elephant loves it.
Clair de lune for 80 yr old elephant
@@indrakarma so soooothing
U r so lame
@@turkikaboha9478 You have an elephant??
What song was thy at the end? Beautiful!
That is my Living Pianos theme which I composed and vary on all my videos.
Can I hear the whole thing somewhere? Thx.
How do I know if I have whooly mammoth keys in my piano?
I don't agree with killing pets for Ivories. No wonder Ivory is illegal to produce these days. It cost a lot of innocent pets, and I hate to see them getting killed just for their tusks to be used to make Piano keys. I don't agree though with Ivory pianos produced from the early 1900s to be illegal to be shipped, I mean they are already produced so I don't see any logic behind banning those.
Oh please
What about harvesting ivory from a corpse? They sure don't need it anymore and it would be wasteful to just let it rot.
Nihal Jude They started banning the killing of Elephants not because killing animals are wrong, but rather because they're endangered.
Nihal Jude If they don't make it illegal, hunters will simply buy a few old and as cheap as possible piano's, take of the 'legal' old ivory and replace it with new. It would become their way of transporting illegal ivory.
+Nihal Jude What do you mean by 'pets'?
I have a spinet, it’s a Wurlitzer from 1951 and it has ivories
They make key tops out of cow bone now, at least for pipe organ manuals when the bone option is ordered. As far as telling what the keyslips are on a piano, if one is loose or came loose, if it's sanded a little on the underside and it's the old nitrocellulose key slips, it will give off a camphor-like odor.
How much would an ivory keyed piano be worth even if the the rest of the piano is
junk-just the ivory value?
Why would you want to know the value of ivory. Isn't ivory trade illigal in your country?
@@bodaciouscans Ivory from before 1947 is legal to sell and buy in Europe
Ivory extraction is cruel no matter how much better they sound.
They only used ivory for white key tops, and frunts, but yeah🎹🎶
And this now makes me wonder if horn and bone are used to simulate ivory.
Awesome! I've always asked myself about this. I think ivory comes from the teeth and horns of more animals than just Elephants (i.e. Rhinos, whales, hippos).
Ivory keys are not allowed in the UK only Plastic Years ago some pianos had celluloide which is also now banned due to it being very inflamable
THANKS! VERY cool!
I have played on pianos with both ivory and plastic keys, and as much as i disagree with the killing of elephants for making pianos, ivory keys are nicer to play on. Your fingers glide more easily over them and aren't as susceptible to sweat.
So get cow bone key slips.
Make keys by using your own bones. Who knows, they might be even better.
I have an old piano but it is impossible to find the age
I don't like piano, but that was really informative.
There are people who don't like piano?
I saw you all down there saying Ivory is Elephant tusk. That mean Yamaha could have been sued as well because Yamaha have been using ivory, and even worse for Clavinova thing.
No they don't they use plastic, and wood for their Clavinova keys. Older Yamaha acoustic pianos may have ivory for the white key tops, and frunts, however it didn't continue until the late 1900s. Most new Yamaha acoustic pianos use ivorite which is simulated ivory, and the ones that don't use ivorite use plastic🎹🎶
@@MERCEDES-BENZS600GUARD_V12 oh wow ok yeah. Good to know.
What are the black keys made from?
black people .
+Boxingcode lol
Ebony hardwood
How to find out if you have ivory piano keys?
Police knocking on your door for no reason :P
I'm vegan and I recently bought a piano (from a third party) to only now learn that some piano keys are made with ivory. So thank you for this video so that I can begin to figure out if mine are ivory. Although I suppose it doesn't really matter now that I've already bought the darn thing but it will give me some piece of mind if I find out that they are plastic.
Is it better to have keys made of petroleum, which is incredibly polluting?
yes
I'm vegan as well and actually also just bought an old piano. As much as I love elephants, and animals in general and I feel really sad what we're doing to them and the things we have done (killing beautiful nog wild animals for some white plated keys... really?), I don't really bother. The damage is done, 115 years ago in my case. What would be even sadder is to throw them away.
How old is your piano?
It doesn't matter if you're vegan: you're not going to eat the keys.
This makes me sad!
Why are you sad?
They stopt using ivory for a long time now🎹🎶
Ivory is the coolest.
We just acquired a 1954 Everett
Inconceivable
Thanks for talking about ivory being illegal. It's a crime & cowardice to kill elephants.
Can't you just tell when something is plastic? I have a keyboard, and there's no way in hell I would confuse the keys with Elephant bone.
ivory keys have a distinctive smell
whow! seems my old /useless/ german "Walkenhauer" piano has ivory keys!!!
why would anyone want an ivory keys piano? thats just such selfishness
It's not necessarily about "wanting" an ivory key piano. I have a piano that was purchased in 1965 and was 20 years old at the time. Does it have ivory keys? I would like to know.
It is said that the ivory absorbs the swet from your hands so they don't slip wile you play🎹🎶
Don´t think I will need to do a lot of sleuthing on my 1925 Gulbransen. Feels like death!
I hope you won't remove the ivory, it won't revive the elephant
Rather you would kill it a second time
We need to boycott ivory and understand that the use of ivory encourages poachers, and you don't even want to know what they do to elephants and other tusk growing creatures to get that ivory. Furthermore, this poaching for ivory is why elephants are becoming an endangered species - I have heard a number of 96 elephants being killed a day in Africa. Please do not encourage the use of ivory.
+Susan Taunton - I haven't seen anyone encouraging the use of ivory. This post is so that people can tell if their old piano has ivory keys or not
+Susan Taunton i agree on the boycott for ivory because many elephants are going endangered due to their tusks which people use to make trinkets, piano keys and other things.
+Susan Taunton True, but you can't buy new ivory keys. So there shouldn't be a problem.
+Susan Taunton Thank you Susan for your support of our African elephants. So appreciate, Warm regards, Bev - South Africa
If only I had any real power to save them... Best to you, Susan
Why do elephants die for ivory? can they not live without tusks? It's inhumane and extremely wrong but why do they have to die.
Tusks are not like finger nails or hair. Despite being made of the same bodily materials as those they contain many many blood vessels through them. Cutting off tusks is akin to cutting off a limb, both in terms of pain and likelihood of survival.
I know I have plastic keys because I don't feel fancy or fulfilled
Glad it was made illegal!
I want a piano with black keys made out of rino horne.
Metallic keys :)?
Elephants and other magnificent animals should NEVER be killed and anyone who buys anything made of ivory should rot in hell!
Weihan Xingqi stfu peta supporter
Shut up nerd
Hell doesn’t exist
@@insertoriginalname8865 You're the voice of monstrous evil!
@@thx1085 Shut up you DEMON!
Fuck it, I'm building an elephant skin/ ivory and bone piano..... and vegan g strings for piano wires since their always wound so tight!😂
I cry for the thousands of elephants and rhinos whose faces were cut off and left for dead. The images make me sick to my stomach. Those people who poach now or in the past are insane psychopathic people. We should be the ones who either take care of the animals of our world or leave them alone, because we have power over them in many ways and should use our power for good.
Who else would like to see him toothless, then notice one of the keys is too yellow? LOL jk
Those beautiful animals should be protected and cherished, anyone killing then for their tusks should receive the same fate
ask a elephant, opps, guess ya can't cause their dead
*an
oops
they're
are there any comments here that aren't about ELEPHANTS?!?!?!?!
I like my keys to be made out of squirrel teeth.
If you willingly buy a piano with ivory keys you should be hunted for sport
I think if we can farm elephants(like we do cows, chicken, ect) for ivory, and harvested the tusks in a humane/painless way, I think it would be fine if there was some ivory business.
If there was a legal trade of ivory, it would be harder for a poacher to make a living.
Thank you for the information! Don't worry about all these tree huggers bitching about your video having anything to do with ivory, most of them don't know the law and they believe that all ivory is illegal when that isn't the case. Also, ivory is a beautiful natural material and I don't think there is anything morally wrong with harvesting ivory from nonendangered animals. The problem exists when animals are pushed to extinction through relentless ivory poaching.
Matthew Mead dude, its apart of the animals body for a reason, we cant just take it away, itll do harm to them, open your mind, and stop being so selfish man
Matthew Mead you're whats wrong with the world.
How would you feel if Elephants harvested your bones to make a xylophone? Pretty damned silly, I'd bet.
My piano keys are worthless now. Phooey.
My piano has IVORY let’s goooo ez money
I saw you all down there saying Ivory is Elephant tusk. That mean Yamaha could have been sued as well because Yamaha have been using ivory, and even worse for Clavinova thing.
Like seriously, what's the big deal for ivory?!?!?!?!?! I'd rather my keyboards be vegan because of this.
Joel Robert Justiawan, you didn't do your homework. Any white keys on a musical keyboard are called ivories regardless of what they are made of. It's like calling any kind of facial tissue a Kleenex. It's not.
The Clavinova has SYNTHETIC keys. They are not real ivory, but have been specially created to imitate the feel of the real thing.
Look it up.
IMChrysalis oh really? I didn't know that.
Please everyone watch earthlings and gary yourofsky on youtube please and please go vegan it's better for us it's better for the animals and it's better for the planet that we live on and be careful sugar is not vegan because of the bone char just search online for vegan sugar brands or just call the company or e mail them and ask them if they use bone char and be careful with the products that contain sugar just read the ingredients btw beet sugar and evaporated cane juice are vegan
Nah.
I tried to watch Earthlings, but it was too painful - I caved after I saw what happened to the dog at the end of maybe chapter 2 or 3 - that image still haunts me, years later. I become a vegan in 2012, right around that time. It seems that beginning to allow oneself to grasp the suffering that we are causing animals around this planet, either by poaching, circuses, factory farming and beyond, one becomes more and more keenly aware, and everyone around you gobbling dairy and meat and, just for example, boasting cruel thoughts about elephants, seem like sad and dangerous sleepwalkers.
Brb, just gonna eat a steak sandwich
I’ve never understood the scandal of the ivory trade
There are *scientists* who admit that because of bad studies on elephant populations, they encouraged African governments to thin elephant herds to “protect the environment”
It’s not dirt poor African poachers killing all the elephants, its African governments killing them because scientists told them to
Without jackass “environmentalists” there would be no elephant population problem, *and* we could still enjoy the luxury of ivory
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." - Abraham Lincoln.
Oop my neighbors keys are ivory… this is awk… I’ve been playing on them all my life….
Ok I understand why some countries had to use their resources for certain things, but why do they still make ivory keys then?? We have plenty or resources.