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Re: Mopane wood

Author: McDonalds Eater
Date: 2021-05-18 05:13

I’ve played on a couple Mopane clarinets.

They have a very warm, mellow, covered, almost “breathy” kind of tone.
Response is not too bad: not resistant but not super free-blowing.
You get this sort of cloudy texture that surrounds the mopane clarinet when you play it. It’s quite interesting. Very similar to a covered sound.

Very good for playing the Brahms/Mozart quintets, chamber music, and solos. Wouldn’t recommend for orchestra since it doesn’t project like grenadilla would.

I loved them!

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