What do these changes mean for the future of chamber music? With the technological advances have come questions of aesthetics and sociological changes in music, writes analyst Baron.
Grades to leather are given by either the manufacturer OR the store that is selling it. If the manufacturer has applied a grading system, they are using the numbers/letters to tell you either a) what type of leather was used or b) how the leather was finished or a combination of the two.
Split leather is leather created from the fibrous part of the hide left once the top-grain of the rawhide has been separated from the hide. During the splitting operation, the top-grain and drop split are separated. The drop split can be further split (thickness allowing) into a middle split and a flesh split.