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Spruce Wood

Spruce wood is a conifer and a jack-of-all-trades.
The affordable and versatile wood is a very grateful and resilient material due to its properties and is particularly in demand in musical instrument making.
The soft and warm wood is easy to work with, yet absolutely dimensionally stable, very popular due to its low weight, and also has a good strength value.
Spruce wood is a world leader in the production of musical instruments!

  • local softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 450 kg per cubic meter

  • ideal wood for instrument making

Alder Wood

The alder is a deciduous tree that belongs to the birch family (Betulaceae).
Alders can live up to 120 years and grow up to 30 meters tall – with a diameter of up to 80 centimeters.
It is a light, soft wood with a uniform structure, making it very suitable for instrument making.

  • local softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 490 kg per cubic meter

  • due to the density, similar in sound to spruce wood

Stone Pine Wood

The stone pine, also known as Swiss pine, is a plant species from the pine family. It is one of the ancient trees that forested our regions 10,000 years ago.
Its home is the Alps and the Carpathians. The slow-growing conifer can often take on bizarre shapes and is often deeply and strongly branched. The cones are collected for a special delicacy, the stone pine schnapps.​
Characteristic of the decorative wood are the reddish-brown, ingrown branches. Another special feature of the resinous wood is its spicy scent. The essential oils have a proven calming effect. Stone pine wood is fine-fibered, soft, and very light.

How does stone pine wood affect health?
Like the essential oil of other conifers, stone pine oil affects the respiratory center. Inhalations promote deeper breathing and thus the oxygen uptake of the lungs. Stone pine oil is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, promotes circulation, relieves pain, and dissolves mucus.
A scientific study by the Johanneum proves that stone pines have a positive influence on the human organism by lowering the heart rate and allowing for calmer and deeper breathing.

  • local softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 400 kg per cubic meter, thus the lightest local coniferous wood

  • due to the density, very suitable for instrument making

  • relatively high waste in production due to high branch content

  • proven health-promoting positive effect

Maple Wood

The properties of maple wood are that the wood is robust, elastic, and tough, as it belongs to the medium-heavy types of wood.
In addition, maple has solid dimensional stability and hardly warps. Since maple wood is very flexible, it can be easily processed and split, maple is a deciduous tree.
We do not process this type of wood for the production of alphorns, but it is perfectly suitable for our mouthpieces.

  • local hardwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 650 kg per cubic meter

  • perfectly suitable for all mouthpieces as well as for attachments of alphorns

Cherry Wood

Cherry wood is a noble wood and a classic for us when it comes to the production of high-quality attachments.
It is very elastic and firm, medium-heavy, and medium-hard to hard. The fine noble wood can darken from light golden brown to reddish-brown due to light exposure.

  • local hardwood (deciduous tree) from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 600 kg per cubic meter

  • perfectly suitable for all attachments of our alphorns

  • relatively expensive

Pear Wood

The dense, hard, fine-fibered, and evenly grained wood of pear wood has been used by carvers and woodcutters since the Middle Ages to make furniture and carved objects.
In musical instrument making, it is, alongside maple, the most used wood for recorders.
We use this wonderful type of wood for the production of our premium mouthpieces.

  • local hardwood (deciduous tree) from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 700 kg per cubic meter

  • perfectly suitable for the production of our premium mouthpieces

Walnut Wood

For centuries, walnut wood has been one of the most sought-after woods for processing in furniture making. The wood of the walnut tree is therefore also more expensive than that of most other local noble woods. In addition to furniture and interior construction (wall and ceiling paneling), walnut wood is used for turnery, musical instruments, and gunstocks. Exclusive is the interior of luxury automobiles with burl veneer, such as for dashboards.
We produce alphorns and all types of our mouthpieces with this noble deciduous wood.

  • local hardwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 640 kg per cubic meter

  • perfect noble wood mainly for the production of our mouthpieces

  • relatively expensive

Bocote

Bocote is a decorative South American hardwood. The base color is light brown, interspersed with dark brown, almost black veins. Bocote is very polishable. The wood is excellent for turning due to its high oil content. It is also very popular in guitar making, often used for fretboards, for example.
We use this Mexican noble wood type for the production of our premium mouthpieces.

  • special noble wood whose density differs from our local types of wood

  • thus we achieve a different sound with our premium mouthpieces 

  • Density 870 kg per cubic meter

  • beautiful appearance

  • very easy to process due to the high oil content in the wood

  • very expensive

Ebony

African ebony refers to the black wood of various heartwood trees of the genus Diospyros from the ebony family (Ebenaceae).
About 120 species of Diospyros are better known, among which striped types like Macassar ebony and black ebonies are distinguished. Of the black ebonies, African ebony is the blackest, with various wood types of the genus from Madagascar, Cameroon, and other East-West African countries grouped under this collective name. They are very similar in structure and properties.
The brown to deep black African ebony is very durable, hard, firm, and heavy.
African ebony is turnable and carvable and can be well lacquered. However, processing is made difficult by the hardness of the wood and should only be done with stellitized tools.

Ebony is used for carvings, inlays, in instrument making, for chess pieces, brushes, piano keys, knife handles, and grips of all kinds.
The heartwood is uniformly deep black, greenish-black to brown-black, sometimes with gray-black zones. The 5-9 cm wide sapwood is dark gray to yellowish.

  • very special and noble wood

  • extremely high density, thus perfectly suitable for our production of premium mouthpieces

  • due to the extremely high density, different sound behavior than all local types of wood and Bocote

  • Density 1,200 kg per cubic meter

  • beautiful appearance

  • extremely expensive and rare in procurement

  • Price per cubic meter approx. EUR 45,000.00! (2024)