Pipers could herald a new dawn for blackwood

Environment Africa Trust (EAT) are seeking information on the market for instruments made from African Blackwood – primarily bagpipes, oboes and clarinets but also a number of less well known woodwind instruments. Their objective is to explore the prospects for instruments made from certified sources of African Blackwood, sold with a small green premium for ensuring timber from a environmentally sustainable and socially ethical source. If you are a musician and would like to help them, by filling in their musicians survey, please email enquiries@environmentafricatrust.org.uk with the subject heading ‘musician’. If you are a retailer, you may wish to fill in the retailers version; using the same email address with the header ‘retailer’. Deadline for completed forms to be returned to Environment Africa Trust is 17^th December 2007, 5pm. UK retailers only please at this stage. With thanks, EAT staff.