Soundboard wood

[Farrell]

The spruce soundboard on a piano only weighs a very few tens of pounds. I 
believe some old, old, old pianos may have had cedar soundboards - but were 
still very light-weight. Even the rest of the wooden components like the rim 
(usually made of various hardwoods, such as sugar maple), other framing, 
keybed, case parts, etc. only weigh a couple hundred pounds. Most of the 
weight in a piano is the cast iron plate.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Try spruce.
>
> At 05:43 PM 4/11/2006 EDT, you wrote:
>>  Greetings,            Are most soundboards made out of sugar maple? Are
>>soundboards ever made of oak? because I have this reeeeeely heavy
>>piano....and was wondering...     Juli Reading
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose