Klarinet Archive - Posting 000387.txt from 1996/11

From: "Bryant, Mike J" <bry1pds@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: mpingo wood
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:20:41 -0500

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From: Michael Bryant

Subject: Re: mpingo wood

Date: 20/11/96 Time: 13:20

Rather an old subject but, just for the record...

The name of the mpingo tree can be found in the Swahili dictionary. This
is not a dialect, but a language spoken by 30 million people in East
Africa - Kenya, Tanzania and Zaire etc. It is translated as the ebony
tree, which we all know as Dalbergia Melanoxylon and another species not
so well known, Diospyros Ebenum.

This is not to be confused with the mpingi tree, a large thorny tree
known as Ximenia Americana which has a tart red oval shaped edible fruit.

Mike Bryant

London

>>Yeh,

>>I saw that show on PBS also. Pretty cool video of a clarinet bell
exploding in

>>the lathe from a crack that went too far.

>>David C. Blumberg

>>Reedman@-----.com

>>Dan,

>>How's the Heart?

>>Does Mpingo have a darker sound than East African (lower east side)
grenadilla

>>if dropped from a 15 story building?

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>>From: Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network on behalf of Dan Leeson:

>>LEESON@-----.edu

>>Sent: Monday, November 11, 1996 3:13 PM

>>To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET

>>Subject: mpingo wood

>>"Mpingo" is the dialect name (for whatever dialect is involved) for

>>what is called in English, "African Blackwood" or "Grenadilla."

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>>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California

>>(leeson@-----.edu)

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