Word: cocobolo
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Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...
Muir, 61, is a carver who penetrates a forest of woods: hard black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...
...England. The English revival had been started by the late untidy-bearded Arnold Dolmetsch, musical antiquary. One of his pupils, Margaret Bradford (who now helps run the American Recorder Society), got a Haverhill. N.H. cabinetmaker named William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold in the U.S. All a recorder maker needs is this South American wood, a lathe, a few tools, and an exceptionally acute ear. But Manufacturer Koch will have to hump. Schirmer's, which takes all his output, estimates that 4,000 recorders...
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