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Originally Posted by iim7V7IM7
There is tremendous overlap in physical properties between the different species of spruce. How dense a top is, how stiff it is both with and across the grain and how it has been thicknessed for a given sized top will influence what you hear more than a "name ID" on a spruce set. As I said metaphorically in another recent thread; We tend to talk about "ingredients" (wood) and assume a resulting meal (sound) without considering the "chef" (builder) or their recipe (design/execution).
My $.02
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Exactly.
I've got an Engelmann spruce top on my Larrivée OM-03W. It sounds like a spruce top. Beyond that I'm not sure I could characterize anything different about it that I can definitively attribute to the top being Engelmann instead of Sitka or European spruce.
Wade Hampton Miller