Ivory Trumpets....

[L.F. Cox]

Looks like Ivory Trumpets and mouthpieces will be a thing of the past in a few weeks if Obama has his way....if the bill is passed there will be no sales across state lines.

I can assure you that doesn't mean you can drive across state lines or down to Nashville and sell it or buy it....

Honestly it kinda makes me feel good inside....I was the first to use Ivory in trumpet/turkey calls and since then every one and his brother has stolen and copied my ideas.

Kinda glad to see it all end.

[Old Gobbler]

Frank what's the basis of this proposed bill -- is it a ban on interstate sales of preban ivory - or all ivory sales in general

Also is it just ivory , or anything on the cites list -- similar to what happened to the Gibson guitar factory 2 years ago when they raided the place and attached all their rosewood and ebony

[L.F. Cox]

The bill bans interstate sales....the cites list just deals with import and export.

[Trumpetyelper]

This makes me remember a famous quote:
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic"
Pablo Picasso

I personally think you should feel proud that Ivory mouthpieces have been widely adopted.

[Rapscallion Vermilion]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8117915.stm

The old instruments ever found, flutes, dating to around 40000 bc, were made of vulture wing bones and mammoth ivory.  So far, even numbers of each have been found.