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The hills off 280 are already sliding some. And there’s flooding in the local canyon. Property lines are gonna migrate again from all the mudslides.
Rain in Silicon Valley. Lots and lots and lots of rain. At least I now know that the bottom of my car will be as clean as the top after driving through a few of the puddles….
The term is vague. Since a great many spruce trees (etc) live to be several hundred years old (4-500), the wood is typically older than that. In my experience, it means that the wood was *cut* 100 years ago (or whatever) and consequently has been cut and drying since then. In the main, time from cut is important, because that’s when the wood starts to dry, but it’s not a guarantee – wood must be treated and stored properly to age well without cracking or developing internal shakes.
Looked like ceramic to me. There’s an artist in Pacifica who builds new backs and stuff for old blown-out instruments….but the parts beyond the resonator were all tenor banjo.
More to the point, it was a 4-string plectrum banjo from the 1920s. Most of us have seen banjos with 10” or 11” heads, but during the jazz age, banjo head size increased in size so they’d be loud enough to be heard in the horn-based bands then preeminent. This is what led to the dobro, George Beauchamp’s electric pickups, and electric guitars….so maybe banjos aren’t an entirely unremitting horror.
