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.
As was previously done, the term âCordovanâ is often used to mean horse leather. It is also used to mean a dark red colour â blood red, which is a characteristic of this leather. However, in the world of shoes, âCordovanâ is used to mean, what is often called âgenuine shell cordovanâ. Genuine Shell Cordovan is a type of leather that is extracted from a layer beneath the skin at the horseâs croupe (rump). It can be compared to a sort of cartilage and has no pores.