This thread reminded me of a sequence of news articles a few years ago... about trees that had been discovered after many years in Lake Superior, and how violin makers wanted them desperately. I googled <<trees "lake superior" violin>> and came up with some relevant hits: http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1998/04/02/59.asp http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Nov00/2272.html On 3/23/07, RicB <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > > Terry > > I've seen pictures of masses of sikta logs soaking in salt water for > long periods of time. Yamaha I think I remember had these pics in one of > their marketing thingys I ran into once. Cant quite remember what the > bit about salt water was... but I remember running into this again in a > paper about piano building in the 1850's.. > > Perhaps you know something about why logs would be soaked in sea water > for a while before drying ? > > Cheers > Ricb > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070323/e7a3e594/attachment-0001.html
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