Elk leather: was Backcheck noise

[John Delacour]

At 12:26 am +0200 5/8/06, Ric Brekne wrote:

>Which reminds me... Whislt touring the wild west this summer I 
>picked up a bundle of tanned Elk hide on an impulse.  Anyone have 
>any comments on the potential uses of this stuff in pianos ?

The wild west of Norway or of America?  It would depend very much how 
and for what purpose it was tanned.

JD