DI]SCRIPTION OF FIGURE 28. 



UPRIGHT PIANO. 



7. Cheek, 



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. 



Figure I. 



The cases of the cheaper 

 pianos, as 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 three-ply in thick- 

 ness on a core of some good 

 body wood such as sound 

 wormy chestnut, red oak, yel- 

 low poplar, and white 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. Sounding board: Spruce. 



7. Bridge: Spruce. 



Figure III. 



1. Diagonal sweep: Spruce. 



2. Sounding board ribs: Spruce. 



3. Back board: White Ash, Sugar Maple. 



4. Posts: Sugar Maple, White Ash. 



5. Handles: Sugar Maple, White Ash. 



Figure IV. 



Key bottom: White Ash, Sugar Maple, Yel- 

 low Poplar, White Pine, Mahogany. 



