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Old 07-11-2009, 09:07 AM
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Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord ...

Good friend comes into the workshop today. I hand him a fingerboard blank.

"Wow, that's so heavy!"

Looks at me dead serious.

"So this comes from an elephant, huh?"

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Old 07-11-2009, 09:27 AM
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so, you did not know its made from elephants ****? thats why its so hard...
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Old 07-11-2009, 10:05 AM
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Old 07-11-2009, 02:35 PM
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Beware when an elephant gets wood.
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Old 07-12-2009, 01:47 AM
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show him the ivory logs
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Old 07-12-2009, 09:18 AM
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"Most people think it's elephant but it's actually mastodon..."
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Old 07-13-2009, 01:04 AM
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Boy that would be a sight to see an elephant with black tusks....

Or was it a white fingerboard?
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Old 07-28-2009, 02:10 PM
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Ebony and Ivory
Both products of pachydermy
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Old 07-28-2009, 02:20 PM
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