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Henry
O. Studley (1838-1925) was an organ and piano maker, carpenter, and
mason.… Born in 1838 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Studley is best known for
creating the so called Studley Tool Chest, a wall hanging tool chest
which cunningly holds some 300 tools…
Massachusetts
piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the
course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company. The chest lived
on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making
changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using ebony,
mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany — all materials used in
the manufacture of pianos — he refined the chest to the point that now,
more than 80 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.
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