Top 5 go to trumpet woods

[Meleagris gallopavo]

This is for trumpet call makers.  If you had to choose your top 5 trumpet woods based solely on sound consistency, what would they be.  I don't care how much it costs or how hard it is to find.

[GregGwaltney]

This is for trumpet call makers.  If you had to choose your top 5 trumpet woods based solely on sound consistency, what would they be.  I don't care how much it costs or how hard it is to find.

Yes, I cheated, but needed way more than 5 options. There are plenty of other great wood choices I left off the list too.

Snakewood, Kingwood/ABW/Any Rosewood, Cocuswood, Desert Ironwood, Genuine Lignum Vitae, B&W Ebony, Delrin, Osage

[Meleagris gallopavo]

I know.  It's hard to decide.  Actually I'm looking for one wood to keep popping up to help me make a decision.  I've asked this question on a few Turkey call Facebook pages and all the input is helping.  Thanks!


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[davisd9]

Not a call maker but am a wood snob.  There is debate on how much, if any, wood changes the sound of a trumpet. Many argue it is internals and the individual that has the sound effect. Of course, sound waves work and react to materials in different ways. Is there enough difference in the sound with various woods that human can even pick it up? Can a turkey differentiate the difference? Always been an interesting topic to me, but anyway if I am choosing woods for a trumpet this is my list and the reasons vary on why.

1 - Brazilian Rosewood
2 - Genuine Lignum
3 - Cocuswood
4 - Mopane/Mopani
5 - Desert Ironwood/AbW/Pink Iovry

[golfernash]

I too am a wood snob, but if I am going strictly by sound....... Delrin

[GregGwaltney]

Not a call maker but am a wood snob.  There is debate on how much, if any, wood changes the sound of a trumpet. Many argue it is internals and the individual that has the sound effect. Of course, sound waves work and react to materials in different ways. Is there enough difference in the sound with various woods that human can even pick it up? Can a turkey differentiate the difference? Always been an interesting topic to me, but anyway if I am choosing woods for a trumpet this is my list and the reasons vary on why.

1 - Brazilian Rosewood
2 - Genuine Lignum
3 - Cocuswood
4 - Mopane/Mopani
5 - Desert Ironwood/AbW/Pink Iovry

I like your list.....Relative to wood and different sound/tone.....not sure if it is a blessing or a curse, but I can sure hear a difference in various woods. It may not matter to the turkeys, but my brain/ears sure push me toward certain wood choices. There is also a "feel" that comes from the different woods, a certain character of tone, a resonance that I find "better". The trumpet internals certainly affect these traits as well, but I find the inherent tone of each wood is just enhanced or degraded by the specs of the builders recipe.

[Meleagris gallopavo]

Not a call maker but am a wood snob.  There is debate on how much, if any, wood changes the sound of a trumpet. Many argue it is internals and the individual that has the sound effect. Of course, sound waves work and react to materials in different ways. Is there enough difference in the sound with various woods that human can even pick it up? Can a turkey differentiate the difference? Always been an interesting topic to me, but anyway if I am choosing woods for a trumpet this is my list and the reasons vary on why.

1 - Brazilian Rosewood
2 - Genuine Lignum
3 - Cocuswood
4 - Mopane/Mopani
5 - Desert Ironwood/AbW/Pink Iovry

I like your list.....Relative to wood and different sound/tone.....not sure if it is a blessing or a curse, but I can sure hear a difference in various woods. It may not matter to the turkeys, but my brain/ears sure push me toward certain wood choices. There is also a "feel" that comes from the different woods, a certain character of tone, a resonance that I find "better". The trumpet internals certainly affect these traits as well, but I find the inherent tone of each wood is just enhanced or degraded by the specs of the builders recipe.

I agree.  I usually judge a trumpet's sound by what I can do with it the first time I try it.  I can hear and feel tiny to significant differences between woods.  That's why I like to have trumpets of different woods from the same maker.  So I'm a major wood snob as well.  About 1/3 of the woods I see used to make trumpets I wouldn't consider. 

So you'll get two mindsets of folks making and buying trumpets.  One mindset is that it that it doesn't matter what the trumpet is made of, the maker and the user dictate how the call sounds.  So why keep getting a bunch of trumpets from different makers using different woods?  I wholeheartedly agree with that mindset, but I just can't follow it.  I fall in the second category of folks that likes to experiment with different woods with several reputable makers.  I'm a collector, but I hunt with each call I have as much as I can and I document the results.  I'm the type of person that can't be satisfied with one or two, I have to have some of each to be reasonably satisfied.  I don't sell calls much either, nor do I plan to down the road.  Anyway, you'll get different answers from different people on what's the best trumpet wood.  I don't think there's a best, I think some are better at producing good turkey sound consistently without having to spend a lot of time learning how to get what you want out of the call.  I hunt with and run a lot of trumpets because I simply like trumpets.  I don't spend a good deal of time learning how to be very dynamic with an individual call.  Some that I initially can't run worth a darn, I'll spend some time learning them at first.  Everybody is different...


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