MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 



The makers of musical instruments reported the use of 27 kinds 

 of wood. The largest quantity went into pianos, but organs, includ- 

 ing pipe organs, used the greatest number of woods. Twenty-two 

 species grow in the United States, but only seven were supplied wholly 

 or in part by Massachusetts, and they made less than 5 per cent, of the 

 total. Seventy-four per cent, of all the black walnut reported by man- 

 ufacturers in the State was used for musical instruments. None of 

 the instrument walnut was State-grown. Yellow poplar is an im- 

 portant wood in this industry. Three woods were reported by makers 

 of musical instruments and not reported by any others ; they were red 

 gum, prima vera and rosewood. 



TABLE 6. Musical Instruments. 



