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places on the list. If they had been demanded in larger quantities 

 perhaps the prices would have been much lower. Ebony at $500 per 

 thousand feet headed the list for cost, but Circassian walnut, boxwood, 

 and tulipwood were expensive. The Circassian walnut carne from 

 Russia, the ebony from Ceylon, the boxwood from Turkey, and the 

 tulipwood from Australia, while a number of foreign countries supply 

 mahogany, the largest amounts coming from Africa and from Central 

 America. A little mahogany grows in Florida, and one manufacturer 

 reported a shipment from that State, but it was not ascertained whether 

 it grew there or was reshipped from some Florida port. Twenty-two 

 per cent of all the mahogany reported for Maryland was made into 

 musical instruments. 



TABLE 14. Musical Instruments. 



More spruce was reported than any other wood, and its range of 

 uses was wide, some being made into boxes for shipping the instru- 

 ments, while some was put to the exacting and special use of sounding 

 boards. The largest part of all the woods reported was made into 

 pianos and organs, but many other instruments are on the list of manu- 

 facturers violins, banjos, drums, harps, tambourines, dulcimers, gui- 

 tars, and others. Some require small parts of wood, while others are 

 nearly wholly of that material. All of the holly, ebony, boxwood, and 

 tulipwood reported for the State went into musical instruments. Six- 

 teen woods in all were listed, and only three were in any part supplied 



