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.
Top grain indicates leather from the outermost portions of the hide. Just because the tag in the furniture store has the word leather on it does not mean a sofa's upholstery is a quality, all-natural material. Not all grades of leather, or terms with leather in the title, are created equally, which is why a bonded leather sofa is often far less expensive than top-grain leather.