Sounds reminiscent of some of the information John Delacour provided for us some months back. Thanks Gerald. Ricb Gerald Posey wrote: > > I am sure we would be thrilled to hear a few of the general lines and > > argumentations of this discussion if you should care to share them with us > ! > Sorry, it was just a brief mention, one maker said Franz was in his studio > visiting and said something about Steinway only changing their soundboards > after some decades and replacing them with new ones (I don't know the > context of that statement) and saying Steinway uses only Sitka spruce > nowadays. Another maker then mentioned he knew a tech in the Steinway > restoration shop that said the older Steinways had Adirondack spruce, and > when they encountered these they tried to save the existing soundboard to > preserve the timbre of the better spruce. He said the Sitka had a shriller > "Yamaha" sound. And there was speculation on the type of spruce used in > European Steinways, perhaps Picea excelsa. > Gerald > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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