hexagonal soundboard?????

[David ilvedson]

> Date:          Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From:          PNOTNR@aol.com
> Subject:       Re: hexagonal soundboard?????
> To:            pianotech@byu.edu
> Reply-to:      pianotech@byu.edu

The key words are solid "spruce" soundboard.  No other
woods...Ah...marketing!

ilvey, RPT
Pacifica, CA


> 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
>
>