Music China is Asia’s main musical instrument trade fair. The exhibition took place last month (October) and attracted around 2,400 exhibitors from 34 countries, and more than 120,000 visitors from 80 different countries.

Two of the more impressive instruments on display were from Fazioli and Bechstein.

- Fazioli F183 Marco Polo
- C. Bechstein “The Sphinx”

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To use new ivory on a new piano is intolerable at a time when poachers are killing about 17,000 elephants a year and environmental concerns are at the forefront of most thinking people's agendas.

Despite the scourge of poaching, piano maker Bechstein has used ivory on a golden salon grand commissioned for its 160th anniversary and based on a replica of the original gilded piano Carl Bechstein created for Queen Victoria in the late 19th century. It took a team of 90 workers more than 2,500 hours to recreate the elaborate instrument. It is finished with 24-carat gold leaf, carved from century-old Italian wood and finished with - legally sourced - ivory keys.

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