Tonewood
Set aside the fact that wood was the major element of human development (fire) and without it we may be a completely different species. I wonder, where would music be if wood were removed from our history?
Take away Spruce and Strataverious would not have invented the perfect violin. Remove Sitka Spruce or Hard Rock Maple and . . .
The wood pile
by: Robert Frost
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
I paused and said, ‘I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.’
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and down of tall slim trees
Too . . .