ALL SPRUCED UP
There’s a lot more to a piano than meets the eye. If you’ve ever poked your head inside that tired old upright in your grandmother’s front room (not a euphemism) then you’ll see all kinds of nuts, bolts, poles, shafts, hammers and moving parts, all of which work in total harmony to produce that piano’s sound. At the core of a piano, however, is a thick wooden soundboard—usually cut through with variously-sized holes—that acts as a resonator to project the sound forwards. It’s