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 Re: has the quality of African blackwood gone down?
Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date:   2013-09-20 14:54

Much of the wood in the antique clarinets isn't African blackwood (grenadilla / Mpingo). It's a Jamaican ebony species known as cocus, now so close to extinct that it's no longer available for making clarinets. As far as I know, nobody's farming it. I have some cocus clarinets from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That wood is truly black and very heavy, with grain so fine and so dense it could almost be mistaken for matte-finished plastic at a quick glance.

Lelia
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