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Peter Tsiorba
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From: Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest
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RE: Inside the box materials (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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I think pretty much anything, any wood available could be used. Spruce, rosewood, mahogany and spanish/Honduran cedar, or Spanish cedar happen to be on hand, so why not use them? I've seen several older Spanish flamenco guitars with Euro beech for solid back linings. Now, euro beech seems like a very generic choice, as I've seen it used on everything from furniture to knife handles, to hand plane bodies. One of such guitars with beech back linings was made by Esteso. Did he choose beech for tonal/acoustic reasons? Deteresa1, from my personal point of view, the types of linings, such as solid, thick, thin or laminated/extra thick, etc. make a greater impact on the acoustic properties of the box than the exact species of woods used.
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Date Oct. 19 2010 19:41:23
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El Burdo
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RE: Inside the box materials (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Thanks, men. So, peones are used to affix the top without stress; that's a good explanation and the sympathetic vibration thing makes sense too. quote:
We only use tentallones (peones) of vertical grain perpendicular to the grain of the sides Here lies the problem for the beginner I guess. The top according to Cumpiano must be free to respond but controlled. So, a good boundary between top and sides is important. The top is the sound source and more significant than the sides (as Torres demonstrated with his cardboard guitar, did he not?). (I do take Anders' point about it being an integrated box too). So, if the grain of the peones is perpendicular to that of the sides, it's parallel to that of the top. I assume that this method reduces transmission of top vibration to the sides, at this change of grain. But, if the grain in the peones is parallel to that of the sides, and perpendicular to the top I would have thought that the top was more directly isolated, and less 'coupled' to the sides? Problem is, all this guesswork costs a lot of wood! Thanks.
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