Wood Identification

[Chris Ghent]

Can anyone identify the wood on the side of this concertina? Is this the fabled Amboyna?

 

Best wishes

 

Chris

[Greg Jowaisas]

Chris,

The amboyna Lachenal and amboyna case that I have has a much "busier" figure to it. And while I think of amboyna as having a reddish hue your example is pretty intense.

 

The Concertina Connection seems quite fond of amboyna and is currently making instruments with an amboyna option. Perhaps an email to Wim is in order?

 

Greg

 

 

[Richard Morse]

Looks like amboyna to me - though the photo appears very dark reddish brown on my monitor. Amboyna *does* come in range from yellow to golden brown to red, and most of the amboyna ended concertinas I've seen tend to be of the golden variety. This page has good examples of amboyna range.

 

-- Rich --

[Greg Jowaisas]

Wally Carroll uses a redwood burl on some of his instruments. Take a look at #9 (to me and other Boston baseball fans, the Ted Williams model!) in his photo gallery.

 

http://carrollconcertinas.com/photogallery/photos.html

 

And The Conncertina Connection has a picture of one of their amboyna instruments here:

http://www.concertinaconnection.com/wakker%20english.htm

 

Greg

Edited January 26, 2007 by Greg Jowaisas

[d.elliott]

Hi Chris,

 

two questions:

 

what make of concertina is this off?

 

can you give an indication of dimensional scale?

 

thanks

 

Dave