>...So a laminated board is considered a "solid" board? Dear Gordon, LIst. What follows may be strictly a play on words on my part. A laminated soundboard that has its layers made of spruce is solid by the fact of being glued together, but it is laminated by definition. A traditional spruce soundboard is not laminated, though it too is made of pieces of spruce that are glued together side-by-side rather than layered which makes it solid. I suspect that solid is not a valid word to describe the different soundboards since both type boards are solid in construction. Apparently, lamination must be the key word here to denote the difference. BTW: I feel Steve Brady described the Wurlitzer "Duraphonic Multi-Radial Soundboard" quite well. Thank you, Steve. Sincerely, Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild Oklahoma Baptist University Shawnee, Oklahoma, US
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