The Atlas
Tonewood Atlas is a live index of what the boutique acoustic world has on its shelves right now, gathered from independent dealers and normalised into one vocabulary. This page is the key to how we read wood — every classification choice, shown.
2,978 listings · 186 dealer codes · 88 species · 21 families, live today
The Wood Key
Picea abies, in which “Alpine” names the Alpine share of a native range that also covers most of northern and eastern Europe — the same species as European, German and Carpathian spruce; creamy white with a hint of yellow or red, fine even texture, straight grain.
Where it sits
tops
2 on the soundbox · 2 builders
How dealers write it
Alpine Spruce
How it files
Who’s building with it
Not CITES-listedchecked, not merely absent · as of 2026-08-09
Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manual — the document. We do not give legal advice and have not checked any individual instrument’s paperwork: this species carries this status on this date. Ask the dealer about documentation.
