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This makes it extremely difficult for a daring luthier to sell instruments that aren't made of standard varieties of wood (1-2). In his article, Calkin discusses many of the woods discussed by Ratner. Calkin claims that woods like mahogany and walnut are used for guitar bodies because they are easy to work with and are very pretty woods (2)...
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Calkin claims that woods like mahogany and walnut are used for guitar bodies because they are easy to work with and are very pretty woods (2). He says that maple is used only for its appearance because different types of maple wood have varying and inconsistent qualities (3)...
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