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From Pachyderms to Pianos in St Ives Cornwall
The Citizens of St Ives Cornwall defend the elephant as a notable animal while the Harris Key Company, founded in 1800, remains a rare factory producing ivory piano keys. Ivory tusks cost about four dollars per pound and are cut, bleached, and processed into almost one million keys annually from about 12 tons of tusk, with ninety percent exported.
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St. Ives
Cornwall
England
Harris Key Company