I agree with the editorial “An End To Elephants?” [April 20] because there is no way to guarantee antique ivory when it is so easily faked. However, I implore the legislature to make an exemption for ...

LEOMINSTER — Back before it was the Plastics City, Leominster was known for piano manufacturing, at one time producing up to a quarter of all piano cases in the country. The piano businesses are now ...

Two New England towns dominated the world's ivory market from 1840 to 1940 — transforming imported tusks from African elephants into piano keys... Elephant Slaughter, African Slavery And America's ...

An English immigrant has vowed to fight an order to pay for the “vandalism” of his 123-year-old antique piano, which had its ivory key tops removed and dumped by New Zealand’s Department of ...

As I gaze at my computer mouse pad, a rubbery version of Monet’s Water Lilies, I keep seeing the number 54. As in million. As in how much an anonymous American just paid for the original, painted in ...

The National Association of Piano Dealers reported 364,545 sales of new instruments in the United States in 1909. That was four times the number of automobiles manufactured in the country that same ...