Mopane: Anyone have a reaction to it?

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:52 pm

Has anyone here had a reaction to Mopane?

Loren

Irish Marine · Post by **Irish Marine** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:54 pm

Hi Loren-
I've had a Mopane flute for about six months now, and no problems. It's been superb, and seems to be getting better with age. Can't say the same for me!
~Sean

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:01 pm

Thanks Sean.

Loren

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:18 pm

Same here. Going on a year. I've never reacted to other woods either, though.

brotherwind · Post by **brotherwind** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:22 pm

Hi,
I am playing one for almost a year, almost every day up to two hours. No problems so far. Hope it remains so.

Moritz

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:47 pm

Thanks all.

One additional question for those who have answered as well as those yet to:

Do you react to blackwood?

Thanks,

Loren

Irish Marine · Post by **Irish Marine** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:58 pm

Hi again Loren-
I react quite well to blackwood. Every time I play his clips I want to get up and dance

Seriously though, I've never reacted to any type of wood, although I've never tried cocus.

~Sean

brotherwind · Post by **brotherwind** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:00 pm

Played on blackwood and cocus only for short instances an sessions and workshops. No problems whatsoever. My clarinet is from blackwood. Also bever problems, although admittedly it looks like it has been treated with a special sealing finish. No idea what it is they use at Keilwerth.

Are you going for a Mopane flute, Loren? Or do you work on these?

Terry McGee · Post by **Terry McGee** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:30 pm

Haven't had any reactions reported, Loren, but I haven't made a vast number of Mopane flutes.

Only reactions I can remember have been the very occasional blackwood and cocus. Don't remember any of the Australian woods, boxwood or delrin proving problematic.

I did have one customer allergic to silver!

Terry

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:44 pm

Some of us still remember that fated day, when you found out you were allergic to your new Olwell "cocus cannon". http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=4545&start=0

But I don't think you will have any problems with Mopane. If anyone knows best about this, it would be Casey Burns...

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:06 am

three or four years with no reaction on mopane

ah, don't know about the blackwood....silver lip plate
silver I react to....been okay so far

must not be playing enough

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:06 am

I have multiple-chemical sensitivity, which means that I am sensitive/allergic to many rather ordinary smells and contacts in my environment. I have learned to control most of the offensive items in my personal space. However, I cannot do that in public spaces.

To the question at hand, I have tried flutes in mopane and delrin, and I do not like the feel of either material. Both make my fingers itch. But, like I said, I am more sensitive than most individuals.

tin tin · Post by **tin tin** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:53 am

I had a blackwood headjoint back in my Boehm days, and I didn't react very significantly, although I did sometimes notice a bit of redness under my lip.
Brief (<5 minute) tries of other people's blackwood flutes don't cause any reaction. I've played a mopane flute since 2004 and have never had any sort of reaction.
I should add that I recently tried a cocus flute, and experienced la tingling sensation almost immediately.

Ben Dover · Post by **Ben Dover** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:07 am

I have been playing a flute which I purchased at a Celtic festival from Mexicans who claimed it to be made from Mopane for almost two years. While it doesn't look or match the grain of pictures of mopane that I've seen on the internet, the color is similar. I have recently develpoped open lesions above my upper lip. Look, I'm no angel, and I realize that the lesions could be caused by other "weaknesses" that I have, but of course the flute is suspect. Others who have been playing it haven't been struck with the same affliction.

Rob Sharer · Post by **Rob Sharer** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:18 am

Ben Dover wrote:I have been playing a flute which I purchased at a Celtic festival from Mexicans who claimed it to be made from Mopane for almost two years. While it doesn't look or match the grain of pictures of mopane that I've seen on the internet, the color is similar. I have recently develpoped open lesions above my upper lip. Look, I'm no angel, and I realize that the lesions could be caused by other "weaknesses" that I have, but of course the flute is suspect. Others who have been playing it haven't been struck with the same affliction.

Say hello to C. Howett Fields for me, would you?

Rob

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