Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 1995/05

From: Benjamin Maas <bmas@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Mpingo Tree (African Blackwood)
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 01:52:50 -0400

>
> Hi gang,
> I'm starting a research paper on the Mpingo and was wondering if anyone had
> any information they could share. At this point all I know is that it is
> endangered and is often used in the making of instruments. Does anyone have
> any ideas or sources? Wasn't there a Nova on this or something. I'm
> checking the archives but am not finding much.
>
> Thanks again,
> Michael A. Cassara
> Cleveland, Ohio
>

I don't know how valid of a resource this is, but a while ago (a year?)
there was a Nova aired on PBS on the problem of the Mpingo going extinct.
It had all sorts of nifty information on the tree and its harvest and steps
until it became an instrument. It also happened to use the Buffet factory
in Paris as its examples.

Ben Maas
bmas@-----.edu