Washington threatens Steinway’s soundboard forest

An industry PR has warned in the Wall Street Journal that new regulations jeopardise the singular source of new piano boards.

… The specialized wood they use for the soundboards comes from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and it gives Steinway pianos the highest quality of tone, pitch, clarity and consistency. Unfortunately, a broken promise from the federal government will soon stop the music….

When our company—Alaska’s last production sawmill—finishes our currently contracted harvest in September, we will have exhausted all the timber the Forest Service has offered. Our 31-year operation won’t be able to go on. The families who depend on us here will be forced to move. Our sawmill, the leading supplier to musical manufacturing companies in the world, will die.

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