That's an interesting video. Guitar makers have been using "sinker" wood for many years. This is wood cut from logs that have been submerged in rivers and harbors for years. The wood is dried, sawn into boards, and then dried some more. It is then sawn into thinner pieces for making guitars, ukuleles, mandolins, mountain dulcimers, etc. You can find many species of sinker wood for sale; e.g., cherry, cedar, redwood, mahogany, cypress, etc.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Interesting idea to make an instrument out of driftwood. For the last several years, luthiers have been using torrefied wood for soundboards. That process removes moisture to create wood that resists warping and improves the tone by mimicking the aging process. I wonder if using driftwood accomplishes similar goals. The langspil in that video sounds very nice. It has a clear, bright tone. Not much in the bass, but that could be due to the choice of string gauges rather than the resonant qualities of the wood.
Alex, you might like my discussion about the langspil in the "Dulcimer Ancestors" Group .
And here is the discussion in that group:
https://fotmd.com/strumelia/group_discuss/2169/icelandic-langspil
I have a beautiful custom langspil.
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This is really interesting:
