I agree, have played on brass nut. Harder material reverberates better. Of course too hard and you wear the strings...

Agree, maybe it has a slight more amount of growl?

The brass is definitely better.

I have quebracho wood, probably good idea for nut?

It's the same as ivory.

I don't think no one hunt whales for their teeth, but for those who hunt Whale and Walrus for food might put all of the animal parts to good use. This channel is Japanese, and they eat Whale meat. And other Arctic nations have people that lives out of what they harvest from the sea ice like animals with Ivory teeth.

So basically just toss the teeth then and leave them on the ground after you've eaten the whale? People use the same argument for leather. People like meat why waste the other parts of the animal?

​@@Garrett12362 It doesn't work like that. It's no ice age mate, it's business, they're not hunting to eat the whales, wtf. They're hunting to sell them. You think they are so stupid to not understand that there's profit in selling bones and fat and leather and stuff? All of this makes good value and keeps the business liable. The way it works is that when hunting whales, let's say, those organizations estimate how much profit they can make compared to losses. They need to buy equipment, repair it, pay the hunters/workers and then ship stuff. This costs a big amount of money. To evaluate if something is a viable business model, they, as any other business, dissect whales (or anything really) to different parts and think of everything as a value. The values are of course off as I'm not a whale hunter, but, let's say, Meat = 2000$, bones = 1500$, fat = 2000$. In the end it makes 5500$ in total. Now, as they know they'll probably make at least $5000 by catching one whale, they can think of this as "So, our losses are $3500 on equipment and personnel in a week, and we can make at least $5000 by catching an adult whale. The odds are we're going to capture at least 2 whales in two weeks, so this seems like profitable". I'm not saying anything miraculous, this is just how business works. Now, imagine that demand on fat and bones decreased, so that they can't sell it for $1500 and $2000 anymore. They'd make just about as much to keep the business from dying, but that's not liable as a business model, such businesses die off quickly. Of course, some of them would adapt their business to catch less whales or do it cheaper, but in most cases it's impossible to adapt a business to a considerable loss of demand, so they'd stop hunting whales. Some of the employers would switch to other business related to hunting some other animals, or catching fish or crabs. TL;DR: Less demand = less value catching whales = less catching whales.