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 Re: has the quality of African blackwood gone down?
Author: ruben 
Date:   2013-09-21 06:44

Not only is this not silly, but a very intriguing idea. The problem-apart from the warping that you mentioned-is that the older instruments-from the thirties, for example-weren't very well in tune. A lot of work would have to be done on the bore and tone- holes. People didn't seem to care quite as much about intonation as they do now. Or maybe the instrumentalist was expected to play the instrument in tune by doing whatever he had to do and nobody expected the instrument to be automatically in tune. As I work for a company with a thirty-year-old stock of wood that will run out soon enough, I think maybe the best solution is to find wood that has been lieing about unused somewhere for several decades in somebody's workshop; maybe wood that was originally intended to be used for furniture.

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