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Author: Matt_Clarinet
Date: 2013-09-20 05:44
They're the same type of wood. The wood has a few different names.
Dalbergia melanoxylon (African Blackwood, Grenadilla, or Mpingo).
It is explained here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalbergia_melanoxylon
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2013-09-20 08:58
To add to confusion, it's sometimes called ébène in France (or ebony on French makers' websites when translated into English), but it isn't ebony which is a different species entirely.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2013-09-20 21:22
If you walk into a wood supply store and request Grenadilla, you will NOT get African Blackwood. You will get a lighter brown, more porous wood of different origin.
True Ebony, likewise, is NOT the same as African Blackwood.
Believe me....it tools differently, and it costs more.
I am working with some right now.
Trust me on this.
Disclaimer: I make and sell barrels made of all three of the above woods. And do not get me started on the myriad of Rosewood species!
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: BobD
Date: 2013-09-20 22:49
Happy to hear you're still at it Allan...........
Bob Draznik
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Author: jasperbay
Date: 2013-09-21 02:01
Might be best if we called it African Blackwood or Mpingo, as "grenadilla" or "granadilla"is used by guitar -builder supplier websites to sell the brown to reddish lighter wood noted by Dr. Segal. Might make a good guitar tonewood, but real doubtfull for a clarinet body.
Clark G. Sherwood
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