Music Trade Review
Issue: 1905 Vol. 41 N. 6 - Page 33
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
33
REVIEW
SOME RARE WOODS.
FELT Jr •"
Piano Men are Finding it Harder Every Day to
Get Certain Hardwoods—Some of the Most
Popular as well as Expensive are Here Enum-
erated.
— Purposes.
Piano and Organ Materials
Repairing Outfits .
TOOLS
11O-112 East 13th St.
NEW YORK
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS OF"
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OrFICE—457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET
rACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, Tenth Avtnut and West F.rty-Slxth Street
C. F. GOEPEL & CO.,
137 East 13th Street,
v
Can Be Easily Attached
to any Piano, Old or New
New York
Sole Agents for
GROSS'
Patent Pedal Attachment
Old and well-seasoned oak is hard to get and
harder to work.
There is no great quantity of old oak furni-
ture in the market, and old pieces that would
supply large enough lumber for important work
are seldom found. New kiln dried oak is uncer-
tain, being liable to warp and crack.
Paneled articles can be made of such material
with some safety, but large, solid articles are
likely to give a bad account of themselves at the
end of a winter in a steam-heated house.
Rosewood also the best cabinetmakers distrust.
This wood has a peculiar oily quality that makes
it unsafe when glued. For this reason rosewood
is used chiefly as a veneer. Thin sheets lose
much of their oil and take glue satisfactorily.
Native walnut is no longer a favorite with
the cabinetmakers. This wood was in effect ex-
hausted a quarter of a century ago or more, and
it is now as expensive as mahogany, and by no
means so beautiful.
Chestnut is a good deal prized, not for furni-
ture, but for wainscoting and for doors. It is
sometimes put up in the rough with good effect,
and sometimes oiled and polished, when it is re-
markably beautiful, considering the cost.
Gulf cypress is used with great effect in like
fashion, and when filled and oiled it makes one
of the most beautiful woods for inexpensive in-
terior decoration.
Cherry was the old substitute for mahogany,
and is still a favorite wood with the furniture
makers. It is, however, not easily obtained in a
properly seasoned condition, for proper season-
ing makes it expensive.
The fact is that with cherry, as with oak and
mahogany the seasoning is an important element
of cost. The cabinetmaker who must sink his
capital for two or three years in wood that is un-
dergoing the process of seasoning finds it hard
to compete with those who use kiln dried ma-
terial.
Mahognay is the favorite wood with the best
cabinetmakers. There is a vast amount of sea-
soned mahogany to be had from ruinous old arti-
cles made in the last century when the rage for
mahogany was well developed; and while the
new mahogany is less beautiful than the old, pur-
chasers of furniture seem to have learned that it
is worth while to have the new wood well sea-
soned.
BONNEAU'S MAHOGANY DISPLAY.
Devised to Keep Mice Out of Pianos
Being* Used by Leading Manufacturers
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT
Manufacturer of Sounding Board*, Bars, GuStar and Mandolin Tops and
Sounding Board Lumbar.
MULLS AND OFPlCBt DOLQBVILLM. N. V.
). J. Bonneau Co.. of Seventh street and East
River, are opening up the consignment of African
mahogany logs recently received, and find that
as a whole they are noteworthy for their size and
quality, as well as for the fine figuring shown.
They will have a large quantify of this veneer on
exhibition thio coming week.
KURTZ & SEEBERG'S NEW FACTORY.
(Special to The Review.)
HOLD-FAST IVORY CLAMPS
FOR ATTACHING IVORY OR CELLULOID. (Patented)
Both clamps m&Ke a neat and secure joint and
leave a clean, flat surface.
Rockford, 111.. August 7, 1905.
Workmen are roofing the new Kurtz & Seeberg
piano action factory on Eighteenth avenue and
Eleventh street, and it will be ready for occu-
pancy on September 1 or thereabouts, unless
there are unforseen delays in the construction.
As soon as the rooms are in condition for use
the piano action company will remove to the new
building, and it will be one of the large factories
of the Southeast End.
HULL HAS SOME SPECIAL LINES.
No. 88B. For Fronts.
No. 88D. For Tops.
Ask lor Circular No. 1658.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO
MATERIALS
AND
TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
NEW HOME, 4th Ave. and 13th St.
(Block South of Union Square.)
' M. A. Hull, of 437 East Tenth street, has some
new samples of mahogany showing very pro-
nounced and rare figures. One of these logs will
me isure fourteen feet in length and twenty
inches wide. Mr. Hull says the case makers are
buying only for immediate needs, but say that
with the movement of stock on hand and in
course of construction, they will buy heavily.
THE
MUSIC TRADE
33
REVIEW
SOME RARE WOODS.
FELT Jr •"
Piano Men are Finding it Harder Every Day to
Get Certain Hardwoods—Some of the Most
Popular as well as Expensive are Here Enum-
erated.
— Purposes.
Piano and Organ Materials
Repairing Outfits .
TOOLS
11O-112 East 13th St.
NEW YORK
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS OF"
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OrFICE—457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET
rACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, Tenth Avtnut and West F.rty-Slxth Street
C. F. GOEPEL & CO.,
137 East 13th Street,
v
Can Be Easily Attached
to any Piano, Old or New
New York
Sole Agents for
GROSS'
Patent Pedal Attachment
Old and well-seasoned oak is hard to get and
harder to work.
There is no great quantity of old oak furni-
ture in the market, and old pieces that would
supply large enough lumber for important work
are seldom found. New kiln dried oak is uncer-
tain, being liable to warp and crack.
Paneled articles can be made of such material
with some safety, but large, solid articles are
likely to give a bad account of themselves at the
end of a winter in a steam-heated house.
Rosewood also the best cabinetmakers distrust.
This wood has a peculiar oily quality that makes
it unsafe when glued. For this reason rosewood
is used chiefly as a veneer. Thin sheets lose
much of their oil and take glue satisfactorily.
Native walnut is no longer a favorite with
the cabinetmakers. This wood was in effect ex-
hausted a quarter of a century ago or more, and
it is now as expensive as mahogany, and by no
means so beautiful.
Chestnut is a good deal prized, not for furni-
ture, but for wainscoting and for doors. It is
sometimes put up in the rough with good effect,
and sometimes oiled and polished, when it is re-
markably beautiful, considering the cost.
Gulf cypress is used with great effect in like
fashion, and when filled and oiled it makes one
of the most beautiful woods for inexpensive in-
terior decoration.
Cherry was the old substitute for mahogany,
and is still a favorite wood with the furniture
makers. It is, however, not easily obtained in a
properly seasoned condition, for proper season-
ing makes it expensive.
The fact is that with cherry, as with oak and
mahogany the seasoning is an important element
of cost. The cabinetmaker who must sink his
capital for two or three years in wood that is un-
dergoing the process of seasoning finds it hard
to compete with those who use kiln dried ma-
terial.
Mahognay is the favorite wood with the best
cabinetmakers. There is a vast amount of sea-
soned mahogany to be had from ruinous old arti-
cles made in the last century when the rage for
mahogany was well developed; and while the
new mahogany is less beautiful than the old, pur-
chasers of furniture seem to have learned that it
is worth while to have the new wood well sea-
soned.
BONNEAU'S MAHOGANY DISPLAY.
Devised to Keep Mice Out of Pianos
Being* Used by Leading Manufacturers
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT
Manufacturer of Sounding Board*, Bars, GuStar and Mandolin Tops and
Sounding Board Lumbar.
MULLS AND OFPlCBt DOLQBVILLM. N. V.
). J. Bonneau Co.. of Seventh street and East
River, are opening up the consignment of African
mahogany logs recently received, and find that
as a whole they are noteworthy for their size and
quality, as well as for the fine figuring shown.
They will have a large quantify of this veneer on
exhibition thio coming week.
KURTZ & SEEBERG'S NEW FACTORY.
(Special to The Review.)
HOLD-FAST IVORY CLAMPS
FOR ATTACHING IVORY OR CELLULOID. (Patented)
Both clamps m&Ke a neat and secure joint and
leave a clean, flat surface.
Rockford, 111.. August 7, 1905.
Workmen are roofing the new Kurtz & Seeberg
piano action factory on Eighteenth avenue and
Eleventh street, and it will be ready for occu-
pancy on September 1 or thereabouts, unless
there are unforseen delays in the construction.
As soon as the rooms are in condition for use
the piano action company will remove to the new
building, and it will be one of the large factories
of the Southeast End.
HULL HAS SOME SPECIAL LINES.
No. 88B. For Fronts.
No. 88D. For Tops.
Ask lor Circular No. 1658.
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
PIANO
MATERIALS
AND
TOOLS
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848
NEW HOME, 4th Ave. and 13th St.
(Block South of Union Square.)
' M. A. Hull, of 437 East Tenth street, has some
new samples of mahogany showing very pro-
nounced and rare figures. One of these logs will
me isure fourteen feet in length and twenty
inches wide. Mr. Hull says the case makers are
buying only for immediate needs, but say that
with the movement of stock on hand and in
course of construction, they will buy heavily.
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