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8th May 2012, 11:54 PM #1New Member
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Help needed identifying wood type
I have this professional recorder I bought many years ago, second hand and I am trying to identify the wood used to make this. These were made in Europe during the 1980s I think. Does anyone know what this is? Thanks
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9th May 2012, 07:28 AM #2
It looks like Rosewood. Is there a makers mark in/on the box? I have a Moeck from the same period and it is well branded. Mine is Boxwood FWIW.
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11th May 2012, 07:02 AM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Coming from Europe. No obvious ray flames but conspicuous. No obvious ring banding pattern of vessels.
My money is on European Beech = Fagus sylvatica.
Wood: heavy, hard, strong, light brown to reddish brown, diffuse porous, obvious growth rings (Introduced to Canada from Europe (Farrar: Trees in Canada.))
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11th May 2012, 08:14 AM #5New Member
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Thanks for all the answers!
Others on another forum have tried as well and the answers are just as varied!
This one seems to be thereabouts from a guitar site full of builders:
"it's from Germany
Ralf Schneider seems to build these.
http://www.blockfloeten-museum.de/ba...neider-r.shtml
http://www.holzblasinstrumente-schoe...ckfloeten.html"
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If you look down the list on the second link under alto flutes and Ralf Schneider he uses three woods.
Natural or stained Maple or pear, or Natural cherry.
Many are suggesting cherry. The instrument is at least 20 years old so the colour might have darkened over time - how would cherry seem to you folks?
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11th May 2012, 09:32 AM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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looking at the first pic i would have said olivewood, but the last pic could be cherry?
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11th May 2012, 09:34 AM #7New Member
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We have one the same and don't know what the wood is. My first guess is cherry.
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13th May 2012, 08:38 PM #9Novice
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14th May 2012, 09:39 AM #10
Ralf Schneider's details are here, Recorder Makers (extant): Search Results. no website.
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14th May 2012, 01:25 PM #11GOLD MEMBER
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Could be european boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) see pics of instrument turning blanks at
https://www.gilmerwood.com/items.php...Boxwood&CID=38.
The french boxwood photos look just like your recorder. Also the Yamaha recorder website has many picture and no other instrument wood comes close. The maple that they use finishes mid brown with little grain, the rosewood has a distinct pattern of dark and light stripes.
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17th May 2012, 03:24 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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Right. At the end of the day, it could be built from overdone crumpets.
Woods have anatomies almost as different as fingerprints. Fact.
I don't have any more than 300 species in my collection, but a sliver
1/2 the size of an old-fashioned paper match is plenty.
Might take all of 10 minutes to end the speculation (but hey, that;s why we're here!)
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