Rosewood is the timber of various tropical trees, including the Brazilian Dalbergia nigra and other species of the same genus. Rosewood is hard, heavy and usually straight-grained with a red-purplish colour and takes a fine finish making it very popular for cabinet making. Rosewood is so named on account of the rose-like odour of its fresh heartwood. Research Rosewood
Black-wood or Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia) is a leguminous tree of Hindustan, the timber of which is highly valued and much used in the manufacture of fine furniture. The Australian Black-wood is the Acacia melanocylon. Research Black-Wood
Dalbergia is a genus of fine tropical forest trees and climbing shrubs of the family Leguminosae. The group includes the black-wood tree (also called the East Indian rosewood) and the sissoo. Some species of the genus yield excellent timber. Dalbergia latifolia (the black-wood, or East Indian rosewood) is a magnificent tree, furnishing one of the most valuable furniture woods. Dalbergia Sissoo gives a hard durable wood, called sissoo, formerly much employed in India for railway-sleepers, house and ship building, etc. Research Dalbergia
Rosewood is a type of tree found in South America, the West Indies and in India. The timber of the rosewood tree is brown, red-brown or dark brown in colour with a striped grain reminiscent of marble, and is much used in veneering furniture. Research Rosewood
Beverly Hills Cop II is an action comedy crime drama starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Jurgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox and Brigitte Nielsen in a story about fast-talking, wise-cracking detective Axel Foley returning to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles to help his old friends Detective Sergeant John Taggart and detective Billy Rosewood investigate the near-fatal shooting of their police chief and the series of 'alphabet crimes' associated with it. Beverly Hills Cop II was directed by Tony Scott in 1987. Research Beverly Hills Cop II
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument. It is an end-blown flute with a fipple mouth-piece and eight finger holes, producing a soft mellow tone. Recorders are produced in various sizes - sopranino, descant or soprano, treble or alto, tenor, bass great-bass and contra-bass being the most common - the most popular size being the soprano or descant recorder frequently learned by school children, though the most useful in terms of flexibility is the treble or alto recorder (the next size up from the descant recorder).
Recorders were historically produced in a fingering system now known as historical, later in the 20th century a new fingering system known as modern was developed in England which involved making the fifth hole on the recorder somewhat larger and/or higher. From being developed in England this system received its alternative name of the English system, and confusingly was also called the baroque system (the true baroque system was applied to recorders of the 17th and 18th centuries). At the same time in Germany a rivalfingering system, known as the German system was developed. Most modern recorders utilise the Modern (English, pseudo-baroque) fingering system.
Recorders are produced in either wood or plastic. Low cost or student recorders are typically made from plastic, and while fairly resistant to errors in breathing technique, are also prone to squeak and lack quality of sound. Wooden recorders are more expensive, require firmer blowing by the player and produce a more mellow, higher quality tone. Harder, more dense woods produce recorders more capable of expressing the individuality of the player, with the down side of being less tolerant to breathing errors and more difficult to play. The typical woods used to make recorders, from the cheapest, softest woods to the more expensive, harder, better qualities are maple, pear, plum, olive, boxwood, rosewood and ebony. Wooden recorders, by the very nature of the material, change their characteristics over time. A new wooden recorder needs to be broken in, or warmed up, by short regular playing of a few minutes each day for a few weeks to allow the wood to react to the moisture in the player's breath. Research Recorder
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