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:
<br><a href="http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1998/04/02/59.asp">http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1998/04/02/59.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Nov00/2272.html">http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Nov00/2272.html</a>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">RicB</b> <<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Terry<br><br>I've seen pictures of masses of sikta logs soaking in salt water for<br>long periods of time. Yamaha I think I remember had these pics in one of<br>their marketing thingys I ran into once. Cant quite remember what the
<br>bit about salt water was... but I remember running into this again in a<br>paper about piano building in the 1850's..<br><br>Perhaps you know something about why logs would be soaked in sea water<br>for a while before drying ?
<br><br>Cheers<br>Ricb<br></blockquote></div><br>