<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@AOL.COM href="mailto:Erwinspiano@AOL.COM">Erwinspiano@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> January 08, 2002 6:48 = AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: North hudson = soundboard closure</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>.          Greg <BR><BR>  At this point in time our sources for soundboard = panels are limited. Bolduc is the largest supplier of panels which is = canadian eastern type spruce. I have recently seen  The Geers people = advertising Sitka panels. Nick Gravagne is doing the board in a box (so to speak)  duplication service which if this is your first go round I would = suggest that. The only new supplier is again Roseland Piano--Rick Wheeler = Portland oregon. He is also the only one providing tongue and groove boards = which is far superior IMHO to the standard butt jointed board. John Hartman and = Ted Samble make their own boards this way but for their own use of course. </FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida = Sans" color=#000080 size=3>Well, actually, he is not the only one doing = tounge and groove joints. We do them on our boards--mostly for our own use, but we = do sell the occasional panel--and Northwestern Specialty Woods (some of the old = Posey folks) does them (and has for some considerable time now) on both their production boards (they do Walter's soundboards and a few others) and on = their custom boards on request.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>NwSW boards are also Sitka spruce, as are ours.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial = color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=3></FONT> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>