hexagonal soundboard?????

[Keith A. McGavern]

>Hi list,
>
>I just tuned a Wurlitzer Spinet.  A label stuck on top of the back lists on=
e
>of the features of this piano as, "Hexagonal Solid Spruce Soundboard".  Any
>ideas what this means?  (I can only think six sides....top, bottom, left,
>right, front and back)
>
>No big deal.  Just curious.
>
>Gordon Large, RPT
>Maine

Dear Gordon, LIst,

If my memory serves me correctly, it means there are three layers of spruce
with the grain offset from each other, then joined to make one soundboard.

Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA