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Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities that enhance acoustic properties of the instruments, but other properties of the wood such as aesthetics and availability have always been considered in the selection of wood for musical instruments.
Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as the Australian blackwood, is an Acacia species native to south-eastern Australia. The species is also known as blackwood , hickory , mudgerabah , Tasmanian blackwood , or blackwood acacia .
Acacia penninervis, commonly known as mountain hickory wattle, or blackwood, [3] is a perennial shrub or tree is an Acacia belonging to subgenus Phyllodineae, [4] that is native to eastern Australia. Description
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Australian Rosewood Acacia spp.; (Acacia excelsa, Acacia acuminata, Acacia rhodoxylon also as Inland Rosewood, Acacia binervia) and others like (Acacia spania) also as Western Rosewood, (Acacia melanoxylon) also as Australian Blackwood etc. Bastard Rosewood, Australian Rosewood (Synoum glandulosum) also as Scentless Rosewood, (Knightia excelsa)
Acacia argyrodendron, known colloquially as black gidyea or blackwood, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree with hard, furrowed bark, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes , golden yellow flowers arranged in racemes , and linear pods up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long.
Species of ebony include Diospyros ebenum (Ceylon ebony), native to southern India and Sri Lanka; D. crassiflora (Gabon ebony), native to western Africa; D. humilis (Queensland ebony), native to Queensland, the Northern Territory, New Guinea and Timor; and D. celebica (Sulawesi ebony), native to Indonesia and prized for its luxuriant, multi-colored wood grain.
Koa is also a tonewood, [15] often used in the construction of ukuleles, [16] acoustic guitars, [17] and Weissenborn-style Hawaiian steel guitars. [ 18 ] B.C. Rich used koa on some of their electric guitars as well, [ 19 ] and still uses a koa- veneered topwood on certain models. [ 20 ]