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Ask the experts: What should a luthier look for when choosing tonewood?

2024-04-30T08:35:00Z

For a beginner luthier, choosing the perfect spruce and maple for an instrument can be a confusing process. Three experts in wood selection offer some guidelines
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Crowdfunding helps to save Stradivari’s wood

2019-08-12T13:38:00Z

The ‘Save the wood of Stradivari’ campaign has raised 230 thousand euros, which has been used to recover 3,000 resonant spruces

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Ask the experts: What should a luthier look for when choosing tonewood?

Crowdfunding helps to save Stradivari’s wood