The Risoud Forest, covering the border between France and Switzerland some 1,200 metres up in the Jura mountains, is filled with spruce trees which are hundreds of years old.
"When I arrived here 30 years ago, there was an average annual temperature of five to six degrees Celsius . Now we are well above that," he tells AFP.Spruces are the most common tree in Switzerland, and the hitherto stable climate in the Jura made the species perfect for producing tonewood for acoustic string instruments.
The trees that meet the criteria perfectly are exceptionally rare -- one in 1,000 or even 10,000, some say. "There are about 2,000 guitar tops -- classical, romantic and folk guitars," explains company boss Theo Magnin."I don't know where people who make musical instruments are going to get their supplies in 10 or 20 years," he says.Philippe Ramel, a luthier whose workshop overlooks Vevey and Lake Geneva, makes two to four guitars a year, using spruce from Swiss Resonance Wood.
"If it continues like this, the stress on these trees will be greater and greater and it's not clear that they will be able to get through it," Villard says.
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