This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and pilasters. The total cost of mahogany exceeded that of any other wood employed in this industry. Some white oak is used for piano and organ cases, but the greater part goes into phonograph cabinets, both lumber and veneer being reported. Some of the birch is used for talking machine cases and some for piano legs, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and pilasters. The total cost of mahogany exceeded that of any other wood employed in this industry. Some white oak is used for piano and organ cases, but the greater part goes into phonograph cabinets, both lumber and veneer being reported. Some of the birch is used for talking machine cases and some for piano legs, pilasters and moldings. For such purposes it usually is finished to imitate mahogany. Sugar and silver maple are very largely employed in the backs of pianos, but a small quantity is used for action parts. White pine finds a place largely in organ bellows and actions, while red gum and black walnut are utilized principally for cases. None of the other woods are reported in greater quantity than 150,000 feet. Many of them are used for case work of various kinds; some of the spruce, however, goes into sounding boards and sounding board bars, while Circassian walnut, often combined with red gum, is made into fine cases. Four of the twenty woods listed in Table 27 cost more than one hundred dollars a thousand feet, while rosewood is placed at the extraordinary figure of $750, and the quantity purchased was 1,500 feet. Few woods anywhere sell at a higher price than that. The cost of Circassian walnut, $333-97 per thousand feet, is rather high, considering that the quantity bought was fairly large. The phenominally high cost of holly is doubtless due to the small amount bought; for it is not usually an expensive wood. The cost of mahogany is comparatively low; its usual price is about $150 a thousand. Black walnut is still popular for cases for cottage organs. It has long held that place. Birchs and sugar maples great stiffness qualifies them for frames for pianos and other case instruments. TABLE 27.--WOOD USED FOE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN 1911. Quant...
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