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   Hello Shawn!   
      
   ** On Sunday 21.03.21 - 08:03, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> Based on the non uniform colouring, the keys in my   
    AA>> particular piano appear to be genuine ivory too.  :/   
    AA>> Perhaps I can repurpose the keys into an art piece as way   
    AA>> to honour the proboscidea that made its contribution.   
      
    SH>   If it's genuine and you do decide to strip it down.   
    SH>   Check out some carvers and see if anyone is interested in   
    SH>   carving it?  I would love a key to try my hand at carving   
    SH>   it.   
      
   Ivory discolours as it ages.. so I'd say that mine has ivory.  A     
   couple keys are chipped at the very extremities.  Mind you, the     
   keys are ivory laminate. There is a 1/8" layer covering the     
   wood. The most you would be able to carve into that would be     
   grooves. Is that sufficient?  I'd be happy to send you a key.   
      
    AA>> Yeah... I'll probably strip it down, salvage what I think   
    AA>> looks interesting, smash and burn the rest.   
      
    SH>   Sounds like either do that or put some plants on it. LOL   
      
   Too late.  I've had OTHER things already settled on it for     
   years.  I can't open the piano without finding a place to put     
   the stuff that sits on it somewhere else first. And.. to make it     
   worse, the steel couch is parked right in FRONT of it. (I had to     
   move it there - temporarily - to make room for the hospital bed     
   that I eventually acquired for my mom.)  Then, the "temporarily"     
   became quite permanent. That was over 8 years now.  :/   
      
      
    AA>> I even have an old worn-out fold-out sofa bed. It's heavy   
    AA>> as hell. There's no way I can get that out of the house   
    AA>> all by myself either. That's another one I've imagined   
    AA>> needs to be taken apart metal-piece by piece.   
      
    SH>   I had one of those years back.  I left it in an apartment   
    SH>   I moved out of because I couldn't deal with moving it   
    SH>   again.   
      
   I've lived in apartments in my first 15 years of independent     
   life. The companies that I worked for covered moving expenses.     
   It was rather neat not to have to disassemble and reassemble my     
   Ikea furniture!  I never left anything behind.   
      
   I would have to get rid of the sofa bed first before I can     
   tackle the piano decommissioning project. And there is "stuff"     
   piled high on the sofa bed now too. :/   
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     ../|ug   
      
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