Laboratorio
di Liuteria Antica
Tonewoods
Naturally seasoned Italian Spruce
&
Bosnian Maple
Wood itself is an alive material created by the nature.
Even if cut down wood still lives further.
Concerning to the cutting period can get the same wood
dry fast or slow, remain heavy or become lighter, become wormy
or protective against wood parasites.
The
answer to all those questions is to be found in the nature.
All people were in former times living in harmony of
nature's rhythm. Also trees were cut down considering phases of
the moon.
Nowadays is for economical reason nature set aside.
Kiln drid wood is preferred to natural seasoning. And
that not only for cabinet making but unfortunately also for instrument
building; in a week about will be wood which has been cut
down in any season ready for violin making. The only wood that
will be still cut down in the right moment is that one suitable
for heating because otherwise will be never combustible.
Are those woods more valuable than others used in instrument
making? Unfortunately for many people they are: kiln dried
wood for musical instruments offred as tonewood covered
with strong chemical paint on both sides to prevent cracking
during oven drying. What can acustically speaking this died wood
offer to an instrument maker? ... and what can the instrument
maker using such a wood offer to a musician?
Our company prefer to come back to origins and try
to offer quality tonewoods which are treated as a natural product
like wood should be.
Trees are cut down from Autumn to Winter in the waning
moon and the worked pieces follow a strict natural seasoning
in our storehouse in the Alps thanks to the natural mountain climate.
To prevent cracking are planks covered with parafine and when
dried carefully selected one by one with utmost care.
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