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Ivory beaurocratic stuff

 
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wm_crash
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:57 am    Post subject: Ivory beaurocratic stuff Reply with quote

Howdy.

Just saw this today, in case anyone is interested (and you should be if any of your instruments have any amount of anything that may even remotely look like ivory):

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2014/03/new-threat-to-musical-instruments-entering-the-usa.html

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wm_crash, the friendly hooligan
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Mat Roop
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does this mean there will be a major increase in bow tip replacements with Mastadon or bone or...?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I honestly have no idea on what the implications are. And I don't know how good the border control people are at telling the difference between ivory and mastodon or walrus or resin or warthog tusk.

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Mat Roop
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My guess is that they really won't be able to tell... and will confiscate or impound until it is proven one way or the other... small comfort for the musician!... probably take months or years to get the item back.
If it were me, for any instrument or bow travelling international, I would have any ivory removed, replaced with mastodon or bone and the ivory parts
preserved for authenticity of the item.
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