Well, "good sound" is subjective-----I'll grant them that. But the ossification process that's occurring in old wood ( as the resins progress on the road to becoming amber--classified as a gemstone- and the cells become more vacuous due to this and shrinkage of the resins, certainly effects the tone in some way. Whether you like it ( as I do ) or not is a matter of opinion, and no-one's opinion is better than another's. They're just opinions. I will say, though, that the increasing stiffness of old wood, and the already-culminated ( for all practical purposes ) compression set lends credence to the argument that a properly recrowned soundboard ( if it can be effected ) is less likely to develop cracks, or fail again, in the future. And it saves some beautiful trees. Euphonious Thumpe --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > From: Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> > Subject: The finite life of wood grain > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 5:38 AM > Well of course you are the one who is correct here Thumpy. > And for the > record... just about everyones opinion gets ridiculed here > by someone or > another... but there is not much to do about that now is > there. > > Old wood that is in good shape can of course be re-used in > SB > construction in a variety of ways and is in fact done so by > competent > folks around the globe all the time. Those that deny this > either have a > very narrow idea of what good sound is all about or some > other such > limiting opinion about the meaning of life or some such > thing :) > > Cheers > RicB > > > We've been through this again and again and again > on this list, and > my opinion ( which will be ridiculed by some here, but > I have no > interest in further defending ) is that old wood that > has been in > decent ( reasonably clean, dry ) environments is > acoustically > superior. ( As in: "Rich" and > "Warm" sounding.) But this superior > resonance can not be expressed, when the crown has > imploded. I'm > doing my first full soundboard recrowning according to > a new method > ( not yet discussed here ) and may report the results. > > > Euphonious Thumpe
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