| Hello, I'm Russ Haines, guitarist of Severe Tire Damage, the first
band on the Internet. Have you ever considered the humble electric guitar?
It's made of a variety of rare and exotic wood, from the neck, which is
usually made from heartwood of maple, to the body, which is matched pieces
of mahogany, to the fretboard, which is a single piece of very heavy ebony.
These are only some of the woods used in making musical instruments; many
others equally or more rare are needed to make everything from cellos to
oboes. Many of the sources for these woods are either gone from overuse, or are currently being devastated in clear-cutting and wasteful harvesting practices. It's time for musicians to take a stand in protecting the sources of these precious materials. You can help by going to the SoundWood website and following a few simple instructions. Musicians from Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead to Yehudi Menuhin are agreed that this is a needed measure to ensure that musicians in the following generations will be able to have the same access to needed materials that we do. |
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