While many woodworkers search out exotic substances like African blackwood, others look for local woods.

Collection highlights featured exclusive materials: gold and African blackwood.

Good quality "A" grade African Blackwood commands high prices on the commercial timber market.

The wood is usually African Blackwood.

The interior of a much smaller vessel of African blackwood also has slight touches of light wood.

(There are inlaid inscriptions cut from African blackwood and outlined in bone.)

Small growers in Naples, Florida have been successful in growing African blackwood there.

Recently, Buffet has made efforts to protect the African blackwood trees, which provide grenadilla wood for clarinets, from being eliminated.

African Blackwood (D. melanoxylon) is an intensely black wood in demand for making woodwind musical instruments.

Flutes can also be made out of wood, with African blackwood (grenadilla or Dalbergia melanoxylon) being the most common today.

Suitable quality African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), traditionally used for clarinets, is becoming harder to find.

Denser than most rosewoods, the sustaining, glassy tap tone draws comparisons to African Blackwood.

There is little commercial logging except for the African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), whose timber is highly valuable.

A chocolate brown bowl, made of African blackwood from Kenya, has a narrow top band of ocher that may have been caused by a burl.

African blackwood dermatitis is a condition characterized by an allergic contact dermatitis associated with a musical instrument made of a particular type of wood.

In its effort to protect the over-harvesting of African blackwood / grenadilla, Buffet has started making several new models of clarinets.

He has recorded four compact discs using Rossi Rosewood and African Blackwood clarinets.

ARKive - images and movies of the African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon)

A gold medal went to Andrew Clayton for these napkin rings (above) in African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon ).

He used a variety of woods in his work, but favoured African blackwood and lignum vitae, as well as ivory when he could get it economically.

Gresso, a cell phone manufacturer based in Russia, recently began selling luxury cell phones whose casing is made from African Blackwood.

Some woodwind instruments, such as clarinets, oboes, and bagpipes, have been successfully made using cocobolo instead of the normal grenadilla (African blackwood).

In Uganda president Idi Amin forbade the export of African blackwood, so as to encourage local bagpipe construction, during the 1970s.

"In the last four years we have had a 300 percent increase in the price of African blackwood, rosewood and nickel silver, the materials we use the most," he said.

Erythrophleum africanum, the African blackwood, is a legume species in the genus Erythrophleum found in Savannahs of tropical Africa.

Traditionally they were made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla.

The instrument is made of wood, usually black grenadilla wood like a clarinet.

The organ's case is made of poplar and the keyboards are fashioned from grenadilla.

But even more wonderful is the design of the matrix that can taste the savour of the grenadilla.

The classic series offers slow growth hard wood surfaces in ebony, pernumbuco and grenadilla.

Other names include fragrant grenadilla, and maracuja de refresco.

A third album Grenadilla Splinters was released December 2011.

What can I say about the sculptor that designed the molecules of the grenadilla whose shape causes this ecstasy in the matrix of the senses?

Recently, Buffet has made efforts to protect the African blackwood trees, which provide grenadilla wood for clarinets, from being eliminated.

Other names by which the tree is known include babanus and grenadilla, which appear as loanwords in various local English dialects.

Hartman recorded new tracks for Grenadilla Records on their jazz label - Grapevine.

Flutes can also be made out of wood, with African blackwood (grenadilla or Dalbergia melanoxylon) being the most common today.

Grenadilla Splinters (online release only, 2011)

Fennell was commissioned by Grenadilla Music to write a major article on 20th Century band composers and their music.

While this symbolism is largely unrecognized today, the passion fruit, also known as grenadilla, is growing in popularity in this country.

Buffet Crampon's Greenline clarinets are made from a composite of grenadilla wood powder and carbon fiber.

In its effort to protect the over-harvesting of African blackwood / grenadilla, Buffet has started making several new models of clarinets.

The modern Wiener Oboe is most commonly made from grenadilla, though some manufacturers also make oboes out of the traditional European material boxwood.

Some woodwind instruments, such as clarinets, oboes, and bagpipes, have been successfully made using cocobolo instead of the normal grenadilla (African blackwood).

The fretboard itself looks busy, with mother-of-pearl flower position markers inlaid on marquetry panels into the gently cambered Grenadilla ebony fingerboard.

Today, high-quality recorders are made from a range of hardwoods: maple, pear wood, rosewood, grenadilla, or boxwood with a block of red cedar wood.

Deering Banjo Company uses Blackwood ("grenadilla") to construct the tone ring in its John Hartford model banjo.

Most fifes are wood - grenadilla, rosewood, mopane, pink-ivory and other dense woods are superior; maple and persimmon are inferior, but often used.

In Latin America, regional names include anón, anón de azucar, anona blanca, fruta do conde, cachiman, saramuyo, grenadilla (little grenade) and many others.

Bass clarinet bodies are most often made of grenadilla (African Blackwood) or (more commonly for student instruments) plastic resin, while saxophones are typically made entirely of metal.

Environment Africa Trust and the Mpingo Conservation Project: Establishing a new community-managed forest in Kikole village.

Due to overuse, the mpingo tree is severely threatened in Kenya and is needing attention in Tanzania and Mozambique.

I actually own a wooden clarinet, but I hadn't even heard of the African blackwood tree, also known as mpingo, until I read this article in National Geographic News.

There are two organisations involved in the conservation of African blackwood, the Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative and the African Blackwood Conservation Project.

The vast majority of clarinets used by professional musicians are made from African hardwood, mpingo (African Blackwood) or grenadilla, rarely (because of diminishing supplies) Honduran rosewood and sometimes even cocobolo.

Dalbergia melanoxylon (African Blackwood, Grenadilla, or Mpingo) 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.

Conservation of Mpingo and its natural habitat can be achieved by ensuring that local people living in mpingo harvesting areas receive a fair share of the revenue created, thus providing them with an incentive to manage the habitat in an environmentally friendly manner.

Dalbergia melanoxylon is one interesting example for spread of exotic species.

Flutes can also be made out of wood, with African blackwood (grenadilla or Dalbergia melanoxylon) being the most common today.

Suitable quality African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), traditionally used for clarinets, is becoming harder to find.

Do not confuse with Grenadilla (Dalbergia melanoxylon), another plant known by its dark wood, like the ebony wood.

There is little commercial logging except for the African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), whose timber is highly valuable.

Larvae feed on Pappea capensis, Dalbergia melanoxylon, and Haplocoelum foliosum.

ARKive - images and movies of the African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon)

A gold medal went to Andrew Clayton for these napkin rings (above) in African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon ).

African Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is often mistaken for ebony as it is a dense fine grained black wood-but ebony is matte black as opposed to African Blackwood, which has a reflective translucent quality in its grain.