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Bodging (full name chair-bodgering [a]) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger.
A metal kazoo Other examples of kazoos. The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of mirliton (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics.
The merged entity stayed abreast of wicker furniture trends by hiring designers such as Paul Frankl and Donald Deskey during the 1920s. [7] The 1920s saw the company move into installing seating in movie palaces. [9] Its furniture was exhibited at the 1933 Century of Progress exhibition and at the 1964 New York World's Fair. [10]
The original factory is a three-story, brick building with several additions. Also on the property is a contributing section of Cape Fear and Yadkin Railroad tracks (c. 1884). Any furniture left from the disaster can be worth thousands of dollars given rarity and condition. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
The Kazoo Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the kazoo, located in Beaufort, South Carolina. The museum houses one of the largest collections of kazoos in the world. [ 1 ] Originally established in 2007 in Seattle , Washington , [ 2 ] The Kazoo Museum opened in its current location in Beaufort on October 6, 2010. [ 3 ]
This was the inspiration for the kazoo, a membranophone. The comb is also a lamellophone. Comb teeth have harmonic qualities of their own, determined by their shape, length, and material. A comb with teeth of unequal length, capable of producing different notes when picked, eventually evolved into the thumb piano [15] and music box. [16]
The Taylor Cos., a nearly 200-year-old company that bills itself as the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States, announced that it plans to go out of business. August 8, 2012 [14] On September 18, 2012 the Gasser Chair Co. of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it had acquired the intellectual property of Taylor Chair Co. This will allow ...
The company's best known design is the No. 14 chair, the iconic chair of Parisian cafes which the designer Japer Morrison described as "refined to the point where there is no way to improve it." [3] Gebrüder Thonet merged with Mundus AG in 1921 to become the world's largest furniture manufacturer.