Grenadilla

Grenadilla (or other, similar, spellings) is a name given to a number of different woods, all of them strong and dense. A famous wood so named is that of Dalbergia melanoxylon, in English African blackwood and in East Africa known as mpingo). It is used for making musical instruments, mainly the oboe, the flute and the clarinet.

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Grenadilla is also used as an alternative name for the Passion fruit.

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Wood: :This article describes the material produced by trees. For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation)....

African blackwood: funet 2003-09-30...

Musical instrument: A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specif...