Plum wood?

ChrisRCovington

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• Apr 18, 2013

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Has anyone used plum wood to build an ukulele or other instrument? I saw one on the Bruko website (since sold) and I thought it looked really good. Here are a few photos I snagged before it sold:

I thought it looked pretty nice I wonder how it sounds?
Any thoughts?

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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Hi, brother Chris.

I'm no little Jack Horner, but I do enjoy a good plum.

--Steve

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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I have a plumwood recorder. As a general rule, the fruitwoods tend to give a mellower sound to recorders than hardwoods but that is a gross generalization. I'd expect a plum uke to be on the sweeter side as well, but totally guessing.

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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I think I know how that particular instrument sounds - exactly like a Brüko. I have great respect for Brüko but their level of consistency is unbelievable. I've played Brükos of many different woods (I own one myself too) and the one that stood out (a bit) had a cedar soundboard. The plum wood looks great so I'd recommend it to anyone who likes the Brüko sound.

The quality of workmanship will be excellent and they're not expensive.

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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Noy used Plum, but it probably has similar properties to Cherry, a nice tonewood, as it is a similar species and the same genus,Prunus

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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That's just plum crazy!! (can't believe no one said that yet)

I tried buying plum once....but they delivered plumber instead. It developed and unfortunate crack

 

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• Apr 18, 2013

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I'd guess it's hard to find good pieces of plum wood that are big enough.

 

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• Apr 19, 2013

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Thanks for the replies (and bad jokes )

I thought the uke looked very nice and I'm sure it has that Bruko sound. I found another (better) shot of it on the German Uke forum: http://www.ukulelenclub.de/Forum/UseBB/topic.php?id=15361 plus another Bruko made plum ukulele: http://www.ukulelenclub.de/Forum/UseBB/topic.php?post=229299 Very attractive ukes. Herr Pfeiffer gets some great looking tonewoods.