I hope they make a couple of guitars out of it. Would beat the Spector bass made from 32,000 year old wood and inlaid with mammoth ivory.
"Spector NS-4 30KBC NEW 32,000 YEAR OLD BASS The NS-30K BC utilized what is believed to be the oldest wood ever used in the construction of a musical instrument. Obtained by Spector from logs discovered buried 40 feet deep in a sand quarry in Georgia, USA, the wood is perfectly preserved, due to the sterile nature of the sand and the natural decay resistance of the cypress wood itself.
Using carbon 14 testing techniques, samples of the wood were examined by Beta Analytics, in Miami, to check for radioactive decay in the small amount of carbon that is present in all living organisms. This wood was dated as 31,970 years old, plus or minus 570 years.
Only 1 built."
http://www.spectorbass.com/about/images/guitars/sidebar_NS-4-30KBC.jpg
Neil Peart, drummer for RUSH wrote the following regarding the drum set for their 40th Anniversary tour:
“Monsters from the Deep”
These R40 drums are a time machine that spans an incredible fifteen hundred years. Around 500 CE was the beginning of the Dark Ages in Central Europe, when the Roman Empire was crumbling and overrun by ... what sounds like a bunch of heavy-metal bands —the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Saxons, the Bulgars, the Huns.
Meanwhile, along the banks of the Olt River in present-day Romania, a mighty oak tree toppled into the water and was gradually buried in silt. Centuries, generations, and historical epochs passed, while that oak’s wood gathered supernatural density from the pressure of its airless tomb.
In 2014 that log was raised, and its wood was acquired by Drum Workshop. I tried a few prototype shells, and knew I wanted my new drums made from that log — the wood offered exceptional tonality and projection.
Through the development of DW’s “Icon” snare series, I learned about laser-cut inlay work, and we applied that technology to an update of the R30 drumset design. Each of the logos and even the red oblong frames around them (deliberately evoking Keith Moon’s “Pictures of Lily” kit, my teenage dream) are made of inlaid hardwoods. The hardware is gold-plated, as seemed appropriate for an “anniversary” tour.
