Several common wood and wood guitar sound characteristics

When you go to buy a guitar, you'll find a variety of guitars made of different wood . Even if the same timber , will be used in different positions on the guitar . For the guitar value , expecially the acoustic guitar , often crucial to selection , can not be ignored . For each music lover, to undertand the different characteristics of wood is very important.

What kind of wood is suitable for making guitars ? Which position do they should be ?what effect will it have on the guitar ? Here is a simple talk aout it .

Spruce
Spruce , also known as white pine , the sound is very clear, grainy , IF sound is more elegant and simple than red pine . Sound reaction reflex is a little bit slower , but the dynamic is very enough. Spruce has a variety of materials , such as Engelmann spruce,Picea Sitika,Germany and the United States western spruce ,each has its characteristic tone . Such as : Sitika spruce is relatively warm music ,and Engelman spruce is more warmth, more harmonic resonance,German white pine is more sweet , United States western spuce is bass and a large volume Under the same conditions , spruce is more susceptilble to humidity , temperature effects , such as moisture expansion , spruce has a swelling degree , so spruce guitar is easy to be affected by the weather , so needs fine maintenance.

Mahogany
Mahogany tone is characterized by relatively warm,bright treble , bass dynamic is not too large . But if you match rosewood, it can make up for deficiencies. Mahogany is commonly used in guitar back and sides . However ,we note that mahogany is good wood in making guitar, they were heavily exploited , the output is less and less, so some manufacturers have to consider looking for a wood to replace mahogany, such as African Sapele , its feature is similar with mahogany . So when you buy you should pay attention to distinguish , both wood is quite easy to distinguish ,Sapele panel stripes very straight, very good recognizable!

Rosewood
Rosewood produce a more muffled sound , full of resonance and good match with pine , which can broaden the dynamic sound of red pine(including the treble and bass ). And with white pine , can relatively extend the main bass, but also can polish the white pine treble . Rosewood and red pine white pine can be called "perfect match ", ofter be used in sides and back . Back and sides purely made of rosewood, has larger volume , bass is very good , the treble is a bit thin, so rarely use all rosewood make guitar back and sides .

Walnut
Wlanut similar to rosewood , IF bass is good , but the fly in the ointment is slightly less in treble frequencies , when making clever use of it , can make a very good guitar .Walnut is more suitable for acoustic guitar, can effectively suppressed steel strings sound too bright , too casual feel , treble properly be suppressed . Acoustic guitar steel string will emit very restrained and emotional voice . Unless you open up another track, or individual preferences , the most classic combination is red pine , white pine and rosewood , which appeared in numerous combination of excellent quality guitars . Each wood used to make guitars will be divided into various levels, the natural growth of the wood are not the same, in addition, the production of guitar also has raw wood as well as cooked wood , can be divided into various quality grades.

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