Brash Failure

[Joseph Garrett]

JD said: "Yes, why on earth not? What is all this talk of "brash failure"? 
Brash wood is diseased, rotten wood -- brashness is not something 
that happens to wood in the course of time but only as a result of 
exposure to malign elements of one kind or another, usually before 
conversion. In a benign environment wood will not deteriorate and in 
35 years of restoration I have dealt with only a tiny number of 
pianos where wood has become brittle, usually, it seems, through the 
prolonged effect of chemicals in its location, and most likely 
smoking coal fires. As regards spruce, I have never come across such 
as thing, and I have never seen a maple shank that has become 
brittle. Those shanks that do become brittle are never maple in my 
experience."

JD,
Perhaps you need more diverse experience.<G> Some of your suppositions are not valid, IMO.


Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain, Tool Police
Squares R I
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