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Soundboard Wood
By Gary Jones

[ ref "Mechanical Musical Instruments of Russia" ]

I believe most of the higher grade pianos -- like Mason & Hamlin,
Steinway, and Story & Clark pianos produced in the USA -- use Eastern
Canadian (Bolduc) spruce.

Sitka spruce is used in most of the Asian-built pianos like Yamaha,
Kawai, Samick and Young Chang products.  (I'm told that Yamaha uses
Eastern Canadian only in their CFIIIS Concert Grand).

Gary Jones
Southeastern Music Gallery

(Message sent Wed 12 Dec 2001, 15:39:01 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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