Scotty actually built this instrument bent the wood, glued it, painted on the shellac.

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Shellac is also the name of a rock band from Chicago.

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Spillers claims to be the oldest record shop in the world, tracing its history back 105 years, when it originally sold phonograph players and shellac records.

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Much of the book, which dates from the 10th century AD, was rendered illegible in the late 19th century by misguided academics who used shellac to varnish it.

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Each had its own way of moving through the land and each had its own odor of passage: the railway tracks cut straight ahead, asking no questions of the bedrock through which it sliced, the wrought-iron rails smelling of axle grease and the wooden slats of rancid, licorice-scented shellac.

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