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Spruce wood

Spruce is a coniferous tree and an all-rounder.
Thanks to its properties, this inexpensive and versatile wood is a very grateful and resilient material and is particularly in demand for making musical instruments.
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 the world leader in the production of musical instruments!

  • Domestic softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 450 kg per cubic meter

  • ideal instrument making wood

Alder wood

The alder is a deciduous tree that belongs to the birch family (Betulaceae).
Alders can grow up to 120 years old and 30 meters high - 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.

  • Domestic softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 490 kg per cubic meter

  • similar in sound to spruce wood due to its density

Swiss stone pine

The stone pine, also known as Swiss stone pine or Swiss stone pine, is a plant species from the pine family. It is one of the original trees that forested our regions 10,000 years ago.
It is native to the Alps and the Carpathians. The slow-growing conifer can often take on bizarre shapes and is often deeply and heavily branched. The cones are collected for a special delicacy, Swiss stone pine schnapps.
The decorative wood is characterized by its reddish-brown, overgrown knots. Another special feature of the resinous wood is its spicy fragrance. The essential oils have a proven calming effect. Swiss stone pine wood is fine-grained, soft and very light.

What effect does Swiss stone pine have on health?
Like the essential oil of other conifers, Swiss stone pine oil has an effect on the respiratory center. Inhalations promote deeper breathing and therefore oxygen uptake in the lungs. Swiss stone pine oil is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, stimulates circulation, relieves pain and expectorates.
A scientific study by the Johanneum proves that Swiss stone pines have a positive influence on the human organism by lowering the heart rate and allowing us to breathe more calmly and deeply.

  • Domestic softwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 400 kg per cubic meter, making it the lightest domestic softwood species

  • very suitable for instrument making due to its density

  • Relatively high scrap / waste in production due to high branch content

  • Proven positive effect on health

Maple wood

The properties of maple wood are that it is robust, elastic and tough, as it is a medium-weight wood species.
Maple also has solid dimensional stability and hardly warps. As maple wood is very flexible, it can be easily processed and split. Maple is a deciduous tree.
We do not use this type of wood for the production of alphorns, but it is perfectly suited for our mouthpieces.

  • Domestic hardwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 650 kg per cubic meter

  • Perfectly suitable for all mouthpieces and attachments for alphorns

Cherry wood

Cherry wood is a precious wood and a classic for us when it comes to producing high-quality add-on parts.
It is very elastic and firm, moderately heavy and medium-hard to hard. The fine precious wood can darken from light golden brown to reddish brown when exposed to light.

  • Domestic 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-grained and evenly grained wood of pear wood has been used by carvers and woodcutters to make furniture and carved objects since the Middle Ages.
Alongside maple, it is the most commonly used wood for recorders in musical instrument making.
We use this wonderful type of wood for the production of our premium mouthpieces.

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

  • Density 700 kg per cubic meter

  • Perfectly suited for the production of our premium mouthpieces

Walnut wood

For centuries, walnut wood has been one of the most sought-after woods for use in furniture making. The wood of the walnut tree is therefore also more expensive than that of most other domestic precious woods. In addition to furniture and interior fittings (wall and ceiling paneling), walnut wood is also used for turnery, musical instruments and gunstocks. The interior fittings of luxury cars with burl veneer, for example for dashboards, are exclusive.
We use this precious hardwood to produce alphorns and all types of our mouthpieces.

  • Domestic hardwood from Austria, excellent eco-balance

  • Density 640 kg per cubic meter

  • perfect precious wood mainly for the production of our mouthpieces

  • relatively expensive

Bocote

Bocote is a decorative, South American hardwood. The basic color is light brown, streaked with dark brown, almost black veins. Bocote is very easy to polish. Due to its high oil content, the wood is ideal for woodturning. It is also very popular in guitar making and fingerboards made of bocote are often used, for example.
We use this Mexican fine wood species for the production of our premium mouthpieces.

  • special precious wood whose density differs from our domestic wood species

  • This allows us to achieve a different sound with our premium mouthpieces 

  • Density 870 kg per cubic meter

  • beautiful look

  • 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).
Approximately 120 Diospyros species are known, of which a distinction is made between color-striped ebony such as Macassar ebony and black ebony. Of the black ebony woods, African ebony is the blackest, whereby various wood species of the genus from Madagascar, Kamarun and other East-West African countries are grouped together 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 can be turned and carved and is easy to varnish. However, the hardness of the wood makes it difficult to work with and should only be done with stellited tools.

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

  • Very special and fine wood

  • Extremely high density, therefore perfect for our production of premium mouthpieces

  • due to the extremely high density different sound behavior than all domestic wood species and bocote

  • Density 1,200 kg per cubic meter

  • beautiful look

  • Extremely expensive and rare to procure

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