As I understand it, ossification is the formation of bone - I'd hazard that this is not the process taking place in aging soundboards. William R. Monroe > 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
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