<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">In a message dated 11/7/2002 8:44:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, remoody@midstatesd.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>Re: Sitka EMC </B><BR>
Date:11/7/2002 8:44:48 PM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:remoody@midstatesd.net">remoody@midstatesd.net</A><BR>
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To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>
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Sooner or later there may be demonstrable empirical difference<BR>
between artificial drying and natural drying of sound board<BR>
material. I bet I can sell more "natural seasoned" boards than<BR>
"forced dried" boards. Anybody hiring that has sb material over<BR>
seven years old? ---rm<BR>
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Yes, maybe but wouldn't you go broke waiting those seven years. I once heard that air dried sail boat mast rarely snapped but kiln dried ones did so more often. Sailors any truth to that story???<BR>
I have some Sitka spruce boards made from air dried lumber cured for twenty years. I can't tell a stitch of difference subjectively or objectively in the sound. It ain't just one thing.<BR>
Dale Erwin<BR>
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