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
A group name rather than a species: at least four Madagascan Dalbergia sold under one label; light yellow-brown through orange to reddish brown, often with black spider-web streaking.
Where it sits
backs and sides and fingerboards
83 on the soundbox · 18 builders
How dealers write it
Madagascar Rosewood · Madrose
How it files
CITES Appendix IItrade controlled · 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.
