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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>

> Alas, it's rare here in the higher ground of the South.  If I could find 
> some
> growing, I could get it milled and dry it myself, but as it is, the guitar
> makers scarf up every splinter of it on the market and so the price is 
> high.  It
> wouldn't do for the neck or pillar of the harp (not hard enough to hold 
> the
> pins), but it would make ideal soundbox material.  I've never known anyone
> using it on lutes, but it is close grained and very, very light so it 
> seems the
> perfect wood for it.

***DH has one of those swamp ash guitars, a Peavy.  It is real bassie 
sounding.  I love the tone.

He also has a Moonstone which is a handmade guitar.  The guy who makes them 
lives out in Freshwater on some land that is part of one of my 
great-grandfather's homesteads.  Kinda keeps it all in the family <g>  It 
has some maple burl in it is a beautiful guitar.
> Do you play it?

***I get the old violin out occasionally but don't play much anymore because 
of carpel tunnel.  Too much typing of large documents before I figured out 
how to use a keyboard as though it were a typewriter %-{

The neat part is that he signed and dated it and you can still see the 
writing inside.

I do play the dulcimer my bil made for me still because it is easy on the 
wrists.  I don't know what he made it out of but it was something off his 
dad's timber land in Round Valley.

> I'd like to get a look at that cello, though.
***I'll have to scan in a picture and send it to you since this list doesn't 
accept attachments.

Lynda