Word: cocobolo
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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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