hexagonal soundboard?????

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Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:50:38 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-04-29 12:39:43 EDT, you write:

>>
>>I just tuned a Wurlitzer Spinet.  A label stuck on top of the back lists
one
>>of the features of this piano as, "Hexagonal Solid Spruce Soundboard".  Any
>>ideas what this means?
>>
>>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

Hi Keith,

So a laminated board is considered a "solid" board?

-Gordon




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