spookelele
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Someone on a social networking site.. posted a picture that has me really thinking about wood used for instruments. We hear things like. kanilea planting forests of koa because of the shortage of wood. Spruce/cedar/etc are also in this same boat. People have speculated on why stradivarius instruments have their special sounds, and that it was because they were made from trees that grew slowly in a forest that experiences severe winters making the growth slow and the rings close together.
What I am wondering is how this affects the instruments being built when the wood, even though the same species.. is vastly different physically in new growth vs old growth trees. The ring is visibly denser than the pith. And the density must be different. Also, the structure being so physically different must affect the sound?
Anyone know anything about that?
1912 vs 2015 same species
What I am wondering is how this affects the instruments being built when the wood, even though the same species.. is vastly different physically in new growth vs old growth trees. The ring is visibly denser than the pith. And the density must be different. Also, the structure being so physically different must affect the sound?
Anyone know anything about that?
1912 vs 2015 same species
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