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Wood sound: the hammer test

Strike the piece with a hammer, three taps one second apart, in the same spot. The phone listens, measures the pitch and how fast the sound dies out, and keeps the result. Once you know what the piece was hiding (cut, probe, core), note it: that is what calibrates the sound for THIS species.

A sound is a hint, not a grade: it replaces neither the probe, nor the cut, nor the stamp of an accredited grader.

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