Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-28
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iO'oS oi mublO DeBlh IN tne basement II
you please, where the best Of ell kinds Of
Foreign and American woods are taken,
after being cured tor four days in kilns (;
aud where the saving is done, and the turn
ing Of ornaments various, and of legs Of ell
sizes and weights, and Of fsuciful forms, is
always going on and where the fret SAWS
suggestive Of watch springs, follow their
patterns Of srabesque traoery through IN
Movements Of every kind of artistic design
and where ingenious msohinss run off their
daily stint Of elegant mouldings, in vAris-
tions Of thirty or more, and in woods from
as far as the Yellow sea, or long distances
beyond the delta Of the Amazon and pass
iug through two rooms filled with lumber
and packing cases, we enter large apart
ment up stairs in which the thin sheets Of
most expensive and beautiful veneering are
welded to their more substantial and en-
dcring foundations. The mouldings are
'nvAriAbly made Of solid wood and Of the
six hundred sorts, of every variety Of color
aud marking and grsinj to be had by i'm
portation and BY labor Of men Who live dee
10 American Forests, this house can ex-
hibit as fne specimens as ever we're seen.
Hence into room Of considerably greater
than BGronial proportions and We see a
goodly number or skilled mechanics ct
work, making the oasos-the outsides only,
oi the marvellous melody making instru-
manhattan that pNliaa k.s
described, though words should be multi.
Piled on thousands Of ivory-fscsd stops, and
the changes should be rung forever in con.
certo, flute, piccolO, vocal HsmolO, vox
.elests DulcianA, and vox humsna. 10
this room 4s men, doing nothing but build
Jog The cases, are not able to make them
fast enough to crafty the popular demand.
Many OF these cases are very elaborate,
some are Of different wood in handsome
combination, as OF black walnut and chest
uut, ebony and rosewood, the light and
dark making . pleasing contrast. The
pAuy have sent for vorkmen to the
most noted factories of Europe, and twenty
siT OF the best builders arrived here q few
days ago with their families, to take hand
10 turning out the work. From this depart.
msni the cases proceed to the varnish room,
when they go through q fabulous number
otruboings, seruob .ngs, and pOlishings, and
where they stay a whole month before the
eEsc' degree cf shine is reached, without
Whioh they would never pass muster. In
shape and style these assume a diversity Of
not iess than seventy separate individual
ties, and are patented. Some have rich
carvings of oak leaves and soorns, and two
oompArtments at either hand in which music
and books can be shut Asd locksd-some
songs are all the better for being under
lock aud key-and other convenienees
which we cannot now detail, and no other
manufacturers produce. Their fronts have an
Gdornment Of gold, and color laid on with
an artists brush, not stenoiled, and the
whole appearance Of the instruments is in
dicsAEive Of the good taste Of the designer
On 'he fifth floor Of this large mAnufActory
are made the "actions.n To say actions, -
means q great deal more than can be told
by any miuuienes Of inventory of levers.
bellows, springs, bundles of broadoloth.
covered wood, wire OF steel and brass and
silver plate, movements geometrioAl and
eccentric, valves of thick, white, soft skin
no, lAmb skin, but. like it,-pAds Of wooden
fabrics Of high cost and extra texture, reeds
OF exactly tempered metal, and hundreds oi
l,JIs things which must 90 each TO its place,
order to furnish forth the concord oI
gv eet sounds" desired. The bellows are
made, or partly made, 10 a large room by
themselves, and the ivory keys are faced
with ivory in front. Mr. Shoninger, the
president of the company, states that he has
'hs several grades of cloth used
IN his manuiAotory, and indeed
much Of the other material
made expressly in HIS work and at any nee
o'sAry price to ensure q satisfactory quality
Al, the glue used is KEEP, q, an even tenn
perature and consistency by steam heating
thus giving it regularity and reliability-ar
item of consequences in the manufacture
We pass on. Several doors open from q
hall into small rooms, iu each of which, like
solitary busy bee, sits tuner who il
privileged to sound what note he pleases, al
nobody can hear it but himself. The tuninl
ia very important part Of the business, ant
requires training. The tuners employed
here are experts Of long terms Of service il
the famous factories Of the world, one mai
having been an organ tuner thirty years ago
twenty men work at making the keys O
ivory and solid not venesred) ebony, Will
of1uners 20 are at present employed. The
are worth, and are paid large wages Whel
the music iS fairly confined in lts owl
headquarters, to be brought out only whe
the sensitive keys are touched and the brai
Intelligence in such manner communicated
the Organ for we can speak of it's identit
a. this stage is taken to a room where it
examined m every respeci-kept fe'
weeks and examined again, and then il
taken away to be packed and shipped to
in future the rAllying point of family, q
in olden times was the broad hearth ston,
with its dear associates of home. This cor
cern turns turns out over 100 hrst-cla,
instruments per month and many are pal
for in advance to secure them; they can nj
half fill their orders, and are now buildiu
new addition to the already very large ia
tory, so that they may be able to turn on,
few hundred more instruments.
THE DARtSG ASSURANCE with which pC
uona conai.tino mainly of alcohol are a