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  2. Shaker-style pantry box - Wikipedia

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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."

  3. Funnelbeaker culture - Wikipedia

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    Marija Gimbutas postulated that the political relationship between the aboriginal and intrusive cultures resulted in quick and smooth cultural morphosis into the Corded Ware culture. [ 33 ] In the past, a number of other archaeologists proposed that the Corded Ware culture was a purely local development of the Funnelbeaker culture, [ 34 ] but ...

  4. Bentwood - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Indian harmonium - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    Jaw harp, made from a reed attached to a frame, plucked 121.221 Tuva: morin khuur [143] Horse-head fiddle 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

  8. Wooden box - Wikipedia

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    Wooden box with full cleated ends (Style 2) Man with wooden box or chest, 1625. A wooden box is a container made of wood for storage or as a shipping container. Construction may include several types of wood; lumber (timber), plywood, engineered woods, etc. For some purposes, decorative woods are used.

  9. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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    The oak and the maple no longer inspired the designer, but the vine was constantly employed. A very large amount of 15th-century work remains to us, but the briefest reference only can be made to some of the more beautiful examples that help to make this period so great. The rood screen was now universal.