MSRP: $995
How to describe Mpingo using human parlance. That's an interesting proposition. For a wood this sexy and rare using banal hyperbole would seem, um....banal. Yet the wood is so deserving of glorious adjectives like heaviest, blackest, hardest, and most valuable are four such terms that do really apply when furnishing a description.
In the Olympics of tone woods mpingo may win the gold medal for the smoothest sounding wood and a silver for control over bass. Saying that, mpingo has a very fast attack and quick decay.
A wood that was contributory in usurping ebony from its jewel throne. Instrument makers, Swahili furniture producers, and hifi nerds agree upon and realize its magic. At the completion of every batch I wonder "is this the last batch, can I get more?" Unrestrained with endless ambitions.
460 grams/ 16.2oz (+/- 10%)
Approximate size -6.35cm / 2.5”tall 7.62cm / 2.8”wide
MSRP: $995
How to describe Mpingo using human parlance. That's an interesting proposition. For a wood this sexy and rare using banal hyperbole would seem, um....banal. Yet the wood is so deserving of glorious adjectives like heaviest, blackest, hardest, and most valuable are four such terms that do really apply when furnishing a description.
In the Olympics of tone woods mpingo may win the gold medal for the smoothest sounding wood and a silver for control over bass. Saying that, mpingo has a very fast attack and quick decay.
A wood that was contributory in usurping ebony from its jewel throne. Instrument makers, Swahili furniture producers, and hifi nerds agree upon and realize its magic. At the completion of every batch I wonder "is this the last batch, can I get more?" Unrestrained with endless ambitions.
460 grams/ 16.2oz (+/- 10%)
Approximate size -6.35cm / 2.5”tall 7.62cm / 2.8”wide
