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10 October 2007

For a mere 100,000 Euros, you can buy a piano with Mammoth Tusk keys.

post by: Fuzzy Monster at: 13:07 | 8 comments

Yes sir, tickling the ol' Mammoth Tusks.

posted by Fuzzy Monster 10 October | 13:16

Unless it's strung with wire made from the beaten gold of Mayan relics, I'm not interested.

posted by Specklet 10 October | 13:46

You drive a hard bargain, Specklet.

posted by Fuzzy Monster 10 October | 15:48

I guess it's the only way to get legal ivory.

posted by Mitheral 10 October | 16:05

What Specklet said. There's just something wrong about using mammoth tusks for a musical instrument. For anything outside of a museum, really.

posted by deborah 10 October | 17:40

Yeah! We don't want the mammoth to go extinct!

posted by Doohickie 10 October | 20:24

Damn. 1500 Euros for a piano?

Not bad. That's . . . what, $2100 at current exchange rates?

posted by jason's_planet 10 October | 21:10

jason's_planet, that's more or less right. $2,129.32 today. That dang U.S. dollar just keeps on plummenting.

deborah, I know what you mean. The inherent bizarreness of this seized my brain and wouldn't let go. Mammoth Tusks?!? It reads like parody but there it is. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

This part of the article struck me as well:
"Only nine piano makers remain in Europe, where the instrument was invented." How long will it be before the relatively cheap 1500 Euro Chinese-made pianos squeeze the last nine piano makers in Europe out of existence?

posted by Fuzzy Monster 11 October | 15:20

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