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, the same species sold as European, German and Alpine spruce — “Carpathian” names the mountain arc running through Romania, Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia, all of it inside the species' native range, not a distinct wood; creamy white with a hint of yellow or red, fine and even in texture, with a consistently straight grain.
Where it sits
tops
13 on the soundbox · 10 builders
How dealers write it
Carpathian Spruce
How it files
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.
