David Back a decade ago when I didn't know much I was using sugar pine in the bottom end & yellow pine for the ribs along the belly rail. I did this routinely for a while. Yellow pine is a stiff & heavy lumber they use in housing construction in the south hence the name Southern yellow pine. The sustain qualities of those iterations was quite good as I recall. I can't get it out here in CA. Obviously mass & stiffness can be had from many combinations of woods. Let your mind run wild. I know the Snyders laminate some maple pieces in the top couple of ribs. I've not heard there pianos. I had some really tight grain( 25 grains per inch) Canadian Douglas fir & I've thought about using some of those in my treble laminates. Dale No I haven't built one of those...yet. Do you think that an argument can be made, then, for using a heavier wood than spruce for the ribbing in the treble section? David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071126/819ef1ed/attachment.html
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