From list@sevush.com Wed Jan 07 11:58:51 2004
Subject:Re: Is this boiling down to a vintage vs. modern audio discussion?

I used to build guitars, acoustic and electric. Turns out the important part
is the soundboard. Torres, considered to be the architect of the acoustic
guitar shape we are used to, once built a guitar w/back and sides of paper
mache to prove that the soundboard was the critical wood. Ovation guitars
are a modern demonstration.

> itself, a Leslie
> is an acoustic device much like an acoustic guitar. I don't see any good
> acoustic guitars made of MDF.. is it the strings on an acoustic
> guitar that are
> making all the sound, or is it a combination of the strings and
> the real wood
> used to make the guitar? Tone woods are sought after by the best
> luthiers on the
> planet, otherwise rip up a 4x8 of MDF. I've often wondered what a
> Leslie made
> out of pine or spruce would sound like with horn and speaker
> soundboards of
> 15-ply Finnish or Baltic birch for rigidity? What did Prince's Plexiglas
> Leslies sound like? If resonance were not a factor in the tone of