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The Free Press
Poplarville, Pearl River County, Mississippi
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Description of rare and expensive comino wood from South America, used in luxurious pianos inlaid with various materials and valued at $10,000, along with a matching bench.
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One of the most beautiful woods ever made into furniture is the comino wood of South America. The wood, which is very rare and therefore very expensive, is of a medium golden brown, very brilliant in appearance, and with curious, cloud-like markings. A piano of this wood inlaid with ebony, satinwood, mahogany, tortoise shell, and mother of pearl, is valued at $10,000. A second piano, nearly as valuable, is of curly birch dyed a light green and combined with comino wood. The top of the piano case is inlaid with representations of musical instruments and with the names of musical composers. The music rest is a rare painting of the muses. A bench of the same wood, made with infinite skill, goes with this piano to be used instead of the everyday music stool.
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South America
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pianos valued at $10,000 and nearly as much.
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One of the most beautiful woods ever made into furniture is the comino wood of South America. The wood, which is very rare and therefore very expensive, is of a medium golden brown, very brilliant in appearance, and with curious, cloud-like markings. A piano of this wood inlaid with ebony, satinwood, mahogany, tortoise shell, and mother of pearl, is valued at $10,000. A second piano, nearly as valuable, is of curly birch dyed a light green and combined with comino wood. The top of the piano case is inlaid with representations of musical instruments and with the names of musical composers. The music rest is a rare painting of the muses. A bench of the same wood, made with infinite skill, goes with this piano to be used instead of the everyday music stool.