. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 8-9. Forests and forestry. M. I a 98 S X ^ X 1. Top panel, 2. Top, 3. Pilaster, 4. Moulding, 5. Side, 6. Shelf, 7. Clieok, 8. Moulding, 9. Pilaster, 10. Key slip, 11. Key bottom, 12. Moulding. 13. Pedal board, 14. Bottom panel, 15. Feet, 16. Key block, 17. Fall board. Di:S( RIPTION OF FIGURE 28. UPRIGHT PIANO. Figure I. The casos of tlie cheaper pianos, a rule, are made of solid wood, generally sweet birch, beech, or basswood, which is stained to imitate some higher priced wood. The cases of the more expensive Instruments, with the
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 8-9. Forests and forestry. M. I a 98 S X ^ X 1. Top panel, 2. Top, 3. Pilaster, 4. Moulding, 5. Side, 6. Shelf, 7. Clieok, 8. Moulding, 9. Pilaster, 10. Key slip, 11. Key bottom, 12. Moulding. 13. Pedal board, 14. Bottom panel, 15. Feet, 16. Key block, 17. Fall board. Di:S( RIPTION OF FIGURE 28. UPRIGHT PIANO. Figure I. The casos of tlie cheaper pianos, a rule, are made of solid wood, generally sweet birch, beech, or basswood, which is stained to imitate some higher priced wood. The cases of the more expensive Instruments, with the excep- tion of the smaller parts, as the moulding, fall boards, pilasters, and key blocks, are always veneered, the veneer being of a fine-finish wood such as mahogany, birds-eye maple, black and Circassian walnut, and rosewood, and from one to throe-ply in thick- ness on a core of some good lx>dy wood such as sound wormy chestnut, red oak, yel- low poplar, and wliite pine. Figure II. 1. Pin blocks: Sugar Maple. 2. Posts: Sugar Maple, White Ash. 3. Back boards: White Ash, Sugar Maple. 4. diagonal sweep: Spruce. 5. Sounding board ribs: Spruce. 6. Soundinf,' l)oard: Spruce. 7. Bridge: Spruce. Figure 111. 1. Diagonal sweep: Spruce. 2. Sounding l»oard ribs: Spruce. 3. Back l)oard: White Ash. Sugar Maple. 4. Posts: Sugar Maple, White Ash. . Handles: Sugar .Maple. White Ash. Figure IV. 1. Kev bottom: White Ash, Sugar Maple, Yel- low Poplar, White Pine, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forestry. Harrisburg, Pa. : The Department : WM. Stanley Ray, state printer of Pennsylvania
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