Well, sure, it may affect things for the first few weeks after "seasoning". But not years down the road. The method of "seasoning", or drying, will have no effect on the stability of wood years after the fact. Well, assuming the drying process didn't result in the wood splintering to pieces..... Terry Farrell On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Tom Rhea, Jr. wrote: > Alan, > The seasoning of wood in Asia may be a little different than the > wood used in domestic pianos. Different woods in the Americas have > different standards, especially drying standards. SPIB (Southern > Pine Inspection Board) specifies that kiln-dried lumber be at 20% > humidity (see KD20 stamped on the side of the lumber) and air-cured > wood will be different. The wood itself may be a little different, > too, due to soil, nutrients, moisture, sunlight or even different > strains of the same general woods used in pianos. > Tom > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101026/20a5f502/attachment.htm>
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