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|  | | 88 Keys: The Making of a Steinway Piano
A Lavishly illustrated volume about the craft of making pianos, the world's most popular musical instrument.
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/strong>The piano may well be the world's most versatile instrument, and the Steinway is the United States's most celebrated manufacturer. This handsome volume takes you inside the process of building a Steinway, from the selection of the woods (yellow birch, sugar maple, sugar pine, yellow poplar, Sitka spruce, and, for the exteriors, various hardwoods) through the construction of the soundboard and keyboard, from the manufacture of the piano's rim and case through the building of the metal harp that holds the strings, and to the final assembly and finishing. Alo | |  | | Tales From The Jungle - a Rainforest Reader
An historical anthology of Western writing on tropical forests, their ecology, and their denizens.
E.O. Wilson to Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham to David Quammen - a collection of the best writing about one of the most inspiring, mysterious, and storied places on earth. Call them Tropical Forests, Jungles, or Rainforests, these areas have always had a unique allure in the Western mind.
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/strong>Katz, cofounder and executive director of the Rainforest Alliance, and Chapin, an actor and activist, have compiled an extraordinarily passionate anthology of fiction and nonfiction spanning centuries, continents and every form of jungle |
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