blood stains the Ivory's of my daddy's baby grand. I ain't seen the daylight since I started this band

@Corporalcolleague Brad don't get enough credit for his playing

@MissNen Someone told me that you actually meant "ivories"? Is that true? If you really did mean "ivories", why didn't you type that in the first place? It would have saved all these silly time-wasting comments if you'd used the correct word to begin with.

@KarenisKenziesmum oh right like you didn't know what I was talking about. That was even more crazy then the mistake I made. Had to make a big deal out of obviously nothing. That's why I didn't change it to see how far you would go. Pretty funny how far you went acting like you had no clue

@SomeMichGuy well the song was in 74 or 5. So his dad's piano was in the 50s I say

@MissNen Real ivory is problematic, legally, if the piano isn't 100 yrs old.

Depending on the make/model, it could be various.

But that is the origin of the phrase "tickle the ivories" and variants.