They use this rare wood to make clarinets and other musical instruments. It makes a terrrific sounding duck call. the call measures around 5 inches. The style of this call is such that you can attach a lanyard at several different locations.
I make other calls in this style, but none are exactly the same.
This duck call is made from the highly desirable and rare African Blackwood. This wood is a favorite of makers of musical instruments such as the clarinet. The call measures five inches and has a brass band to compliment the beautiful wood.
Blackwood grows throughout East and Central Africa. A small tree growing to heights of 30 feet and generally diameters of less than one foot.
Color: Heartwood is purplish-brown with black streaks. Sapwood is white. Properties: extremely dense and hard. Density 75lb/ft3. Very fine even grain, oily, very stable. Uses: The wood of choice for fine quality woodwind instruments such as oboes, clarinets and bagpipes.
African Blackwood is the most desirable wood for wind instruments. When air is caused to vibrate in the bore of an instrument, the less the walls of the bore absorb the sound waves inside it, the brighter and louder the sound. Blackwood, with its oil impregnated dense grain, is ideally suited for this. It is not subject to seasonal changes, which is critical in a musical instrument and a duck call!
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