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Author: javier garcia
Date: 2002-01-15 17:24
Selmer has their bass model in both grenadilla and palissander. Some makers have rosewood clarinets, as Leblanc, Rossi and Patricola. Do you know if they (rosewood and palissander) are the same wood or not? If it's not, what's the main differences?
thanks
Javier
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Author: William Hughes
Date: 2002-01-15 18:14
Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia nigra), a dark red or yellow-orange and black wood in irregular stripes used for making furniture, piano casings, cabinetwork and instruments, is also called palisander or palissander.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 2002-01-15 21:02
The german recorder manufacturers, Moeck, use two different woods which they describe as Honduras Palisander "hard and heavy and rich in overtones" and Bahia Rosewood "somehwat lighter in weight with a wonderful reddish grain and with a special quality of sound".
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Author: Doug
Date: 2002-01-16 15:04
Try typing "luthier" into your search engine--if you REALLY want to know about wood, guitar-builders are the guys to hang with. My impression is that 'Palisander' and 'Rosewood' are synonymous, BUT--there are lots of rosewood varieties used in guitars: Brazilian (rare), East Indian, and Honduran among them. One of the luthier websites (which I've lost, unfortunately) displays color samples of the various tone woods, including the rosewoods. Good luck & happy searching.
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