Spruce pilings OT

[Farrell]

WOW! That's a lot of spruce. Not likely Sitka, as I would think back then they would have been using a local source. Could be Eastern though. That is what Andre Bolduc is building his soundboards out of. 

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@comcast.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Spruce pilings OT


> List, 
> 
>             Today's Boston Globe newspaper has an article about the
> pilings supporting Boston's Trinity Church. 
> 
>             Much of Boston was built on reclaimed swamp land in the 19th
> century and this article describes the engineering of building on this
> unstable ground.
> 
>             They drove 4500 spruce pilings 12" in diameter 35 'long to
> the bedrock 126 years ago. 
> 
>             It seems the key to resisting rot is to keep the spruce wet
> which has been done successfully in this case.
> 
>             Anyway, no mention of what kind of spruce was used, but I
> wonder how much "Tone wood" is buried down there. 
> 
>             Come to think of it there is a renowned pipe organ in the
> church that may benefit tonally from those little tone circles in the
> pilings.
> 
>             Tom Driscoll RPT
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> http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2003/08/26/a_church
> _on_stilts/
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