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	African Blackwood - Dalbergia melanoxylon
		African flwood is reported to occur extensively in the savannah areas in Africa, from Sudan southward to Mozambique, westward to Angola, and northward to Nigeria and Senegal.
		African flwood is reported to respond to tapping for screw threads almost as well as metals.
		African flwood is reported to be superior to Ebony for the manufacture of woodwind instruments because of its oily nature and high tolerance to fluctuations in climatic conditions.
	www.exotichardwoods-africa.com /blackwoodafrican.htm (634 words)

	African Blackwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		African Blackwood or Mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea and south to the Transvaal in South Africa.
		The tonal qualities of African Blackwood are particularly valued when used in woodwind instruments, principally clarinets, oboes and Northumbrian pipes.
		These days African Blackwood is no longer regarded as being ebony, a name now reserved for a limited number of timbers yielded by the genus Diospyros; these are more of a matt appearance and are more brittle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_Blackwood (356 words)

	Scott Morton Bagpipes formerly Caledonia Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		African Blackwood, fully combed and beaded with your choice of projecting mounts (imitation ivory or wood) mounted with your choice of stainless steel, nickel, faux gold alloy or aluminium ferrules, slides and ringcaps — closed ferrules on the drones.
		African Blackwood, fully combed and beaded with your choice of projecting mounts (imitation ivory or wood) mounted with your choice of faux gold alloy, nickel or aluminium ferrules, slides and ringcaps with your choice of hand engraving (simple pattern) on the ferrules slides and ringcaps — closed ferrules on the drones.
		African Blackwood, fully combed and beaded with your choice of projecting mounts (imitation ivory or wood) mounted with sterling silver ferrules, slides and ringcaps with your choice of HAND engraving on the ferrules, slides and ringcaps — closed ferrules on the drones.
	www.kinnairdbagpipes.com /products.php?cat_id=82&item_id=pic504 (341 words)

	ABCP--Welcome to the African Blackwood Conservation Project Home Page
		Most people will not have knowingly seen flwood but almost everyone will have heard it, for it is the premier wood of choice for fine concert-quality woodwind instruments such as clarinets, oboes and flutes, as well as being used in the manufacture of bagpipes.
		Blackwood is also the finest material available today for producing ornamental turning.
		In its African homeland, it is used to make intricate and highly detailed carvings, and plays a vital role in the ecology of the East African savannah.
	www.blackwoodconservation.org (454 words)

	Global Trees Campaign - Projects
		African flwood is mainly used for wood carvings and for exportation for the musical instrument industry.
		Ebony, Ivory, Madagascar rosewood, Boxwood, African flwood and Cocuswood are all traditionally used in wooden flutes.
		African flwood is the most common wood used today in Scottish pipes.
	www.globaltrees.org /proj.asp?id=46 (1776 words)

	ABCP--The African Blackwood Tree
		The African flwood tree is a member of the rosewood family, with taxonomic classification in the family Leguminosae, genus Dalbergia, species melanoxylon.
		African flwood is also referred to as Grenadilla in the woodwind instrument trade, though this name of Spanish origin likely refers to a wood of Central American origin.
		Robert Lamb, who was a consultant on the "Tree of Music" video and appeared in the film, writes about this confusion between ebony and African flwood, "A sunken vessel was found somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean with a cargo of (among other things) wooden billets that were analysed as flwood.
	www.blackwoodconservation.org /tree.html (2381 words)

	Materials used in my Irish flutes
		African Blackwood has become the de-facto standard for Irish flutes, and with good reason.
		Blackwood is essentially fl with some gray and brown highlights when viewed under strong light.
		Now becoming quite popular as an alternative to flwood, I believe I was the first to use it for flutemaking, in the mid to late 1970's.
	www.mcgee-flutes.com /materials.htm (865 words)

	African Blackwood Conservation Project
		The tree is African Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), or Mpingo in his native tongue.
		Heavy, continuing commercial harvesting, spreading desertification and increasing population pressures with their associated set-fires and livestock grazing present a serious threat to the continued availability of African Blackwood in several decades.
		His program consists of paying local villagers to water and care for Mpingo seedlings planted in recycled tin cans until they are of a size and vitality to resist the fires which threaten them in the wild, and then replanting these seedlings into their native habitat.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jeharr/chuwa.htm (1171 words)

	Steven Kennard - Woodturning Gallery Four
		This box is turned and textured in African Blackwood.When I first finish a box I frequently have to put it away for a little while and do something else.
		This African Blackwood box has its own secret, the French Boxwood tray that seats so snugly into the base, such a good fit that it's almost pulled down by suction.
		The top of this box, which is turned and carved in African Blackwood, has been textured in contrast to the polished centre and rim.
	www.stevenkennard.com /galleryfour.html (592 words)

	Learn More About Wood Headjoints
		Generally the less dense woods like boxwood have a mellower or less complex timbre than African flwood (technically referred to as grenadilla wood) which combines sonic complexities like bright and dark throughout the octaves.
		Within the African flwood family the wood varies in density several percent, as specimens from different trees of the same family vary and can be sorted by weight assuming moisture levels are consistent throughout.
		By sorting African flwood by weight, specimens can be divided into medium and high density so that a particular timbre can be anticipated.
	www.drelinger.com /newqanda.htm (617 words)

	Sterling Guitars: Preowned Olson, Lowden, Langejans, Ryan and Others
		I was told that when you compare the sound of this guitar to all of Kevin's others, this African Blackwood is considered one of his top 10 (according to his wife!).
		African Blackwood (formally called mpingo) is a very rare hardwood with an enchanting history.
		If you want a guitar made out of African Blackwood, if you can find it, there can be a year and a half wait for the wood alone.
	www.sterlingguitars.com /Ryan_African.htm (473 words)

	Global Trees Campaign - Resources
		The dark heartwood of mpingo, which gives it its western name of African flwood, is one of the most economically valuable timbers in the world.
		The loss of the export and carving industries in Tanzania would devastate local economies and would be disastrous for instrument manufacturers in the west.
		Mpingo grows under a wide range of environmental conditions and is native to 26 African countries.
	www.globaltrees.org /reso_tree.asp?id=1 (874 words)

	African Blackwood Hardwood Hoops
		African Blackwood is among the hardest wood species in the world, and one of the most prized.
		Our Blackwood Hoops are supremely tough and possess a high pitched wood block type of tone, which carries above other instruments.
		African Blackwood 13 by 6.5 with matching Blackwood Hoops.
	www.stanbridgedrums.com /Pages/blackwood_hwh.html (76 words)

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		We use African Blackwood and Gaboon Ebony for our pipes as well as a man-made Acetal resin, manufactured under the brand names of Delrin® and Polypenco®.
		African Blackwood is probably the best wood to use for the pipes, for which we have seen no equal.
		Although the name African Blackwood can be used for any of several species of wood, we use only the real thing - Dalbergia Melanoxylon - which is in the rosewood family.
	www.lightlink.com /mcushing/notes.html (1132 words)

	Eric Meyer, Maker of Fine Fittings
		All of these pegs are available in violin, viola and cello, with shaft sizes for new or replacement pegs when the peg holes have not been bushed.
		I have specialized in mountain mahogany and African flwood as alternatives to boxwood and ebony, respectively, but can use any wood you wish, including rosewood or snakewood.
		African flwood is a dense wood in the rosewood family that has the resinous quality of rosewood, the flness of ebony with a higher luster when polished.
	www.vanzandtviolins.com /FineTuning.htm (495 words)

	ABCP--Makonde Carvings from African Blackwood
		This art is produced by the Makonde people of southern Tanzania, and their material of choice is African flwood, or mpingo.
		A recent exhibit of African art at the University of Virginia Bayly Museum highlighted several pieces of Makonde work.
		With the settlement of the civil war in Mozambique tourism seems certain to increase in the eastern African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique with a consequent greater demand for mpingo carvings.
	www.blackwoodconservation.org /carving.html (538 words)

	African Blackwood at Colonialtonewoods.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		African Blackwood is not new to the instrument industry by any means.
		African Blackwood works easily and often displays a mottled, ropey, or flamed figure.
		African Blackwood grows in East Africa, and is a dark purplish brown heartwood with fl streaks and narrow, white sapwood.
	www.colonialtonewoods.com /pages/africianblackwood.htm (161 words)

	Managed Timber Resources LLC / African Blackwood Page
		The size of this butt log is 3 ft (90 cm) in diameter and 12 ft (3.7m) in length.
		These trees are the standard size of most flwood trees being harvested today, by other producers of African Blackwood.
		Please note the butt log of a flwood tree (in lower right edge of photo) that will be transported to Beira and converted to material for the woodwind instrument industry.
	www.african-hardwoods.com /blackwood (506 words)

	Pipe Designs
		Hand-turned African Blackwood, fully beaded and combed with nickel ferrules and wood mounts.
		Hand-turned African Blackwood, fully beaded and combed with nickel ferrules, imitation ivory projecting mounts and nickel tuning slides.
		Hand-turned African Blackwood, fully beaded and combed, half mounted with imitation art ivory projecting mounts and hand engraved sterling silver ferrules, slides, caps, etc. Complete with hide bag, velvet cover and silk cords.
	www.scotsware.com /pipe_designs.htm (220 words)

	Bows in Stock
		African Blackwood fittings screw adjusted frog, 65.5 grams weight.
		African flwood fittings, screw adjusted frog, 71.5 gm weight.
		African flwood fittings with a screw adjusted frog.
	www.vanedwards.co.uk /stock.htm (1253 words)

	TVE: News
		TVE was especially pleased to learn that the order came from the African Blackwood Conservation Project (ABCP), who told us that it was TVE's film that inspired their formation in 1996.
		African Blackwood is another name for the Mpingo tree, native to Tanzania, where it plays a vital role in the local culture, economy and natural environment.
		It is to highlight the plight of this most highly prized tree that the African Blackwood Conservation Project was formed.
	www.tve.org /news/doc.cfm?aid=625 (377 words)

	Oboes - Dawkes Music Ltd, Student Oboe, Professional Oboe, Semi Auto Oboe, Cor Anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The unique feature of the Buffet is its joints which are African flwood with a synthetic lining giving the sound of a wooden oboe without the cracking problem normally associated with wooden topjoints.
		The Howarth S5 XL Prestige model is made from African flwood.
		They produce the Ward and Winterbourn TW1A student model in African flwood with a single octave key covered hole system, one trill key and F vent.
	www.dawkes.co.uk /oboe.html (456 words)

	African Blackwood 14 inch Snare Drum
		Crafted from solid African Blackwood (Mpingo) from Tanzania, this instrument derives its high fundamental pitch and satisfying resonance from the incredible density and hardness of the timber.
		Used as the primary tonewood in the construction of premium clarinets, oboes and bagpipes, Blackwood is a delight to work and takes a beautiful natural polish.
		Because of these qualities and Mpingo's ability to withstand moisture changes, we are able to send out these instruments - both shell and hoops - completely unfinished.
	www.stanbridgedrums.com /Pages/blackwood_14.html (120 words)

	Re: what are they made of? -- The Bagpipe Message Board
		The wood is most often African flwood from eastern Africa where it is known as Mpingo.
		This is a very hard, brittle wood and is difficult to work with, as they crack very easily because of their brittleness.
		For instance, a block of African flwood needs to sit in the back room of the shop and cure for something like 15 or 20 years before it's ready to be worked.
	www.voy.com /13066/2773.html (458 words)

	African Blackwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We keep a large stock of dried and tension free parts that have rested for up to five years.
		This can be explained by the lack of their field presence, the purchase of cheap timber, or the mishandling of first rate timber during field transport, in harbours, in open-air-storage, and during long distance sea transport!
		African Blackwood African hardwoods Wood for musical instruments Musical Instrument Woods Instrument wood sets Turning blanks turning squares Precious woods Wood for bagpipes and folkloric instrumentsWoods for woodwinds Tonewood suppliers Pink Ivory Mopane wood bowl blanks Luthier woods Exotic woods Ebony wood supplier
	www.prosono.co.za /english/African-Blackwood.html (292 words)

	CAS: Staff
		His research covers both contemporary African Politics, particularly in respect of Ghana where he has carried out a series of election studies (most recently in 2004), and nineteenth and twentieth century History.
		He is currently engaged in a comparative research project (with Nuffield Foundation and British Academy funding) on divided border communities in West Africa, with a focus on the Ghana/Togo and Gambia/Senegal (Casamance) borderlands.
		James is a graduate of the University of Dundee and holds a masters and a doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
	www.cas.ed.ac.uk /staff.html (2580 words)

	African blackwood - Dalbergia melanoxylon - ARKive
		Stripping away the yellowish grey sapwood reveals the deep purple to brownish fl core, this wood is extremely resistant and durable and is known variously as African flwood, African ebony, 'poyi' and (in Swahili) as 'mpingo'.
		These trees are small and heavily branched, the trunks are seldom straight and many stems may be present; the rough bark is grey with many fissures, and the branches have small spines.
		In season, the branches of the African flwood tree are adorned with tiny, white, sweetly-smelling flowers born as clusters on inflorescences, which may reach 12 centimetres in length.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/plants_and_algae/Dalbergia_melanoxylon (192 words)

	Robert Bigio. Fine handmadeflute headjoints in wood and precious metals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Most of my headjoints are made of wood (usually African Blackwood, but occasionally other woods), although I do also make headjoints in silver, gold and platinum.
		Two views of a thinned African Blackwood headjoint with a gold embouchure insert and gold ferrules.
		Flute headjoint, African Blackwood, thinned: 725.00 now including a zirconium stopper (click here for information) and a hard, leather-bound fitted case.
	www.bigio.com /headjoints.html (477 words)

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