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Aug 27 2019, 10:44 PM
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Rosewood is prized as a tonewood, responsible for a characteristic resonant tone in everything from guitars to cellos and clarinets. Following the 2017 restrictions, the musical instruments industry lost tens of millions of dollars in sales and traveling orchestras feared their instruments would be seized at international borders. Both sectors had to deal with a bureaucratic permit process.
Instrument makers and musicians pushed for the exemption, writing in a convention brief that without it, "the world of music and culture will lose certain instruments that produce the highest quality tones, with no corresponding conservation benefit." They got their wish Monday as a key CITES committee approved it. If finalized as expected this week, the exemption will allow finished musical instruments as well as parts and accessories containing rosewood to be transported freely around the world without permits. Trade in raw-material rosewood would remain regulated and subject to permits granted by individual countries. "Today was really the culmination of three years of productive dialog across musical instrument stakeholders, parties to the convention and also conservation groups," said League of American Orchestras lobbyist Heather Noonan. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/27/754509680/mu...fficked-rosewoo |
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