• Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities...
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    Maple (section Tonewood)
    dye from maple bark, which they used to dye cloth. Maple is considered a tonewood, or a wood that carries sound waves well, and is used in numerous musical...
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    Looking, Beautiful Sounding Tonewood". GuitarNation.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-23. "Tonewoods | Gaskell Guitars - Custom...
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    Naqus (section Tonewood)
    loud beating of the nāqūs also disturbed the Muslims. In addition to the tonewoods, the small bells that have come down to us from ancient Egyptian times...
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    Spruce (section Tonewood)
    of a piano and the harp. Wood used for this purpose is referred to as tonewood. Spruce, along with cedar, is often used for the soundboard/top of an acoustic...
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    (lapti) and baskets.[citation needed] Birch wood is sometimes used as a tonewood for semiacoustic and acoustic guitar bodies, and occasionally for solid-body...
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    and is now sought for use in wood carving and furniture. Koa is also a tonewood, often used in the construction of ukuleles, acoustic guitars, and Weissenborn-style...
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    appropriate thinness". Soundboards are traditionally made of wood (see tonewood), though other materials are used. Skin or plastic are found on instruments...
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    is of the correct size and shape. Eucalypt wood is also being used as a tonewood and a fingerboard material for acoustic guitars, notably by the California-based...
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    lumber plant species, including bamboo. See also Mechanical properties of tonewoods for additional properties. Wood properties: Bamboo properties: It is common...
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