Keith, It looks nothing like Oak to me. How about European Beech? Common ingredient in pianos, and the grain lines look "identical" to North American Beech. William R. Monroe On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Keith Roberts <keithspiano at gmail.com> wrote: > At first I thought it was dim light and yellowing shellac that had confused > me. So I sanded it down a little and it looks like Oak to me and my buddy. > It is a German Piano and so must be of European origin. > > But then again, Hemholtz used holes to isolate frequency and project sound > directionally. That holes are a sound absorbing medium is not true. They are > a heat absorbing as insulation but all insulations do not make great sound > barriers. Still, it's probably not as good > KR > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Delwin D Fandrich <del at fandrichpiano.com>wrote: > >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101001/3a57ab43/attachment.htm>
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