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Re: Cocus wood

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-12-09 13:06

Ken Shaw wrote,
>>However, grenadilla is harder, warps less and machines better, and it doesn't produce the severe lung irritation of cocus. Kal Opperman made me a cocus barrel, which plays beautifully, but he swore off using it because of the irritation.
>>

My husband made some fountain pens and walking sticks from cocobolo and got that allergy from it. Just to be clear about it: the allergy develops from exposure to the sawdust during manufacturing. I've never heard of someone developing the allergy from using a cocus or colobolo clarinet or mouthpiece. I've played a cocobolo recorder for years with no problem. I've got some antique cocus clarinets. The wood seems excellent: the heaviest wood of any of my clarinets, deep, pure black, with straight grain that's so tight it's hard to see. As I uncerstand it, Jamaican cocus is now too endangered to be used for clarinets.

Lelia
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