Mahogany was Wood & Humidity

[Farrell]

It wasn't me either Del. All I did was comment on marketing. Oh, and ditto
for me to everything Ron says below! Well put Ron. And quite the fine rant
Del. Good to see one so sharp on the first day of the new year.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mahogany was Wood & Humidity


> >OK, folks, the old year is gone, time marches on and it's time for my
very
> >first rant of the shiny new year and the brand new millennium.
>
>
> And a fine and cogent rant it was too, as always. For the record, I'd like
> to point out that I didn't indicate the Story & Clark board sounded like -
> well, you know - because it was not spruce, laminated, or for any other
> such superficial reason. I've said that before, but maybe it expired with
> the millennium rollover. I answered the question about whether mahogany
was
> ever used as a soundboard material, indicating it was laminated to not
give
> the impression it was a solid panel, which is what I assumed Richard was
> asking. I don't assume a piano sounds lousy because it has a laminated or
> non spruce board, horizontally laminated bridges, hammers without staples,
> MDF cabinet, or soft casters - all of which I've heard extended as
> explanations or excuses. What I failed to do was to add the disclaimer to
> an answer that seemed to tie two non cause and effect things together in
> the same post, leaving room for the erroneous assumption that I do presume
> the cause and effect relationship, even though I didn't say it. My
mistake.
> I'll clear that up with a renewal statement. "I do not automatically
assume
> a terrible sounding piano with a laminated board sounds terrible only
> because of the panel is laminated." I haven't, however, entirely abandoned
> the possibility of evil spirits just yet.
>
> We probably would still have plenty of Sitka Spruce left if it hadn't been
> wasted for the last two hundred years as an easily harvested, cheap, easy
> to work junk wood. Who's turn is it to have enough sense to know better
> than to waste the only world we have? Take notes for the next four years
as
> to who's turn it's not.
>
>
> Ron N