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Shaker box tower Shaker pantry box molds. The Shaker-style pantry box is a round bentwood box made by hand. Such boxes are "associated with Shaker folklife because they express the utility and uniformity valued in Shaker culture."
Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.
Large fiddle with a wooden sound box and two strings attached to tuning pegs in the neck 321.322: Ukraine: bandura [145] Diatonic, unfretted lute-like string instrument, traditionally carved from a single block of wood 321.321: United States: Appalachian dulcimer [146] [147] dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, lap dulcimer, fretted dulcimer, dulcimore ...
The basic components of an Indian harmonium include: a wooden body with two metal handles for carrying, banks of brass reeds (often 1, 2, or 3) set on a wooden reed board, a pumping apparatus , air stops (including stops for drones), and a keyboard (which is similar to a piano keyboard but with a smaller number of keys). [9]
Bentwood boxes are a traditional item made by the First Nations people of the North American west coast including the Haida, Gitxsan, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Sugpiaq, Unangax, Yup'ik, Inupiaq and Coast Salish. These boxes are generally made out of one piece of wood that is steamed and bent to form a box.
A semitone is thus made of two steps, and three steps make a three-quarter tone or neutral second, half of a minor third. The 8-TET scale is composed of three-quarter tones. Four steps make a whole tone. Quarter tones and intervals close to them also occur in a number of other equally tempered tuning systems.
Iroko wood was the wood chosen for the pews in the Our Lady of Peace Basilica. [ 19 ] It is a very durable wood; [ 20 ] iroko does not require regular treatment with oil or varnish when used outdoors, although it is very difficult to work with tools as it tends to splinter easily, and blunts tools very quickly.
The box form is more common in France than in England, the pedestal of such a lectern being surrounded by a casing of three or more sides. A good example with six sides is in the church of Vance (France), and one of triangular form in the Muse of Bourges, while a four-sided box lectern is still in use in the church of Lenham, Kent.