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
Pyrus communis, the orchard pear, native from Europe to northern Iraq and planted well beyond it; heartwood a pale pink to light reddish brown that the sapwood barely differs from, fine and uniform in texture, and often steamed to deepen the pink — the timber trade's name for it is “Swiss pear”, which describes the treatment rather than an origin.
Where it sits
tops
1 on the soundbox · 1 builder
How dealers write it
French Pear
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.
