Brash Failure

[John Delacour]

At 9:27 pm -0700 18/8/06, Joseph Garrett wrote:

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

I'm not surprised you should say so, Joe, since on Saturday, October 
23, 2004 Joseph Garrett wrote:

>The one thing that gets me to NOT want to do a re-ribbing of an olde 
>board, is the fact that wood does age. Forget the compression factor 
>for now. Let's just consider this: In the aging process of wood, it 
>loses it's cellular cohesion/bonding. At some point, this aging 
>process creates what is known as Brash Failure. If wood is kept in a 
>consistant environment, it will eventually turn to stone, (ie 
>petrify). The Brash Failure occurs about half way to the petriying 
>stage.

Now while I recognise that my experience may not be as diverse as 
yours, I have never seen or heard of any piece of wood in a piano 
that has turned to stone in any "consistant environment" in which a 
piano can survive. By your reckoning you are familiar with some 
pianos that are well on their way to petrification.  Since my 
suppositions are invalid, according to you, I suppose you will be 
glad to point us to a web site or some learned volume that will 
validate your own rather interesting theory.

JD